checklist after getting azure subscription for setup production environment

Question

Hello,

I want to setup a new environment that I will use as production. What is the basic checklist I need to do after getting an Azure subscription? like branding, ,architecture ,monitoring, ,security points of view or other related things ..

Thanks
Richa

Answer 1

Hi @Richa Kumari ,

After getting an Azure subscription, there are several steps you should take to set up a new environment for production use. Here is a basic checklist to follow:

1. Choose the Azure environment and region for your deployment.
2. Determine how many resources and what kind of resources you need for scale and redundancy.
3. Assign an Azure subscription owner role for when you create the CMG (Cloud Management Gateway) in Azure.
4. Review the internet access requirements to make sure each required service can be reached.
5. Establish a cross-functional DevOps platform team to build, manage, and maintain your workload.
6. Involve the security team in the planning and design of the DevOps process to integrate preventive and detective controls for security risks.
7. Clearly define CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery) roles and permissions and minimize the number of people who have access to secure information or resources.
8. Configure quality gate approvals in DevOps release process.
9. Integrate scanning tools within CI/CD pipeline.
10. No infrastructure changes, provisioning or configuring, should be done manually outside of IaC (Infrastructure as Code).

In addition to these steps, you should also consider branding, architecture, and monitoring from a security point of view.

• For more information on architecture in Azure, please refer this Azure Architecture Center documentation.
• For more information on reliability in Azure, please refer this Azure Reliability documentation.
• For more information on adoption and branding in Azure, please refer this Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure documentation.
• For more information on Azure operational security and secure deployment in Azure, please refer to the following resources:
• Set up checklist for CMG
• Azure operational security checklist
• Secure deployment in Azure checklist
• .NET on Azure development environment checklist

Just FYI, this response is partially based on Q&A AI Assist and posted after manually validating the accuracy of the response and making necessary changes as appropriate.