Minimize the risk of teams autonomy in the cloud - Policy-driven governance in Azure by Kamil Wiecek
Channel: Engineering Community
Date: 21/01/2022

Goal:

Show a way to govern the Azure environment at scale by correctly implementing a policy-driven governance process.



Context:



Cloud adoption brings new opportunities and threats. 
The self-service nature of the cloud enables individual teams’ autonomy. End-to-end ownership of product SDLC and infrastructure management is now a reality. It could result in not meeting business requirements, financial inefficiency, and compromising organization after security issues
What can mitigate the risk mentioned in the previous point?


What answers will you find there?

What are cloud adoption risks are?
Why is Azure governance a process of keeping a balance between opportunities and threats?
How do we do Governance Assessment projects as Azure CoE?
How to ensure and monitor configuration requirements at scale in Azure using proper Azure resource hierarchy and Azure Policy?
What is Azure policy? How does it work?
How could Chaos DB vulnerability be mitigated by using Azure Policy?