Introduction
The term governance describes the general process of establishing rules and policies. Governance ensures those rules and policies are enforced.
A good governance strategy helps you maintain control over the applications and resources that you manage in the cloud. Maintaining control over your environment ensures that you stay compliant with:
Industry standards, such as information security management.
Corporate or organizational standards, such as ensuring that network data is encrypted.
Governance is most beneficial when you have:
Multiple engineering teams working in Azure.
Multiple subscriptions to manage.
Regulatory requirements that must be enforced.
Standards that must be followed for all cloud resources.
Meet Tailwind Traders
Tailwind Traders is a fictitious home improvement retailer. The company operates retail hardware stores across the globe and online. As you work through this lesson, suppose you're the CTO for Tailwind Traders. You're aware of the opportunities offered by Azure and also understand the need for strong governance. Without strong governance, the company might end up with an environment that's difficult to manage, and costs that are hard to track and control. You're interested in understanding how Azure manages and enforces governance standards.
Learning objectives
In this module, you learn how to:
Design for governance.
Design for management groups.
Design for Azure subscriptions.
Design for resource groups.
Design for Azure Policy.
Design for resource tags.
Design for Azure landing zones.
Skills measured
The content in this module helps you prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions. The module concepts are covered in:
Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions
Design a governance solution
Recommend a strategy for Azure policies and resource tags
Recommend a strategy for Azure Blueprints
Recommend a strategy for Azure landing zones
Prerequisites
Conceptual knowledge of governance policies, resource organization, and subscription management
Working experience with organizing resources, applying governance policies, and enforcing compliance requirements