Summary
Azure Policy is a crucial component of the governance model in the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, which is designed to balance control and stability with speed and results. It helps you enforce organizational and regulatory standards and assess compliance at scale through built-in and custom policies and policy initiatives.
The module covered the hierarchical organization of Azure resources, policy operations in Greenfield and Brownfield scenarios, and the various components of policy definitions. You also delved into the evaluation and effects of policies, safe deployment practices, and integration with Event Grid for automated actions based on policy state changes. Key points included:
- Importance of careful policy design
- Testing to ensure effective governance without disrupting operations
- Logical operators and conditions in policy evaluation
- Supported effect types such as disabled, modify, deny, audit, deployIfNotExists, and manual
Additionally, the module emphasized starting with enforcementMode deactivated for new policies to test their impact and then deploying policies in rings to gradually expand to production environments.
For more information, see the Azure Policy documentation.