Cloud Governance Model, Actionable with Azure Native Tools - Part2

[Imtiaz A Siddiqui]

In part 1, we briefly went over the Five disciplines of Cloud Governance and the systematic approach of implementing Cloud Governance Model. In this blog post, we will cover the Azure native tools and some 3rd party tools to help and support the implementation of cloud governance for your Azure environment, across all of the given disciplines of cloud governance.

AZURE NATIVE TOOLS

• Cost Management
  • Azure Blueprints
  • Azure Policy
  • Azure Cost Management
  • Azure Advisor
  • Azure Portal
  • Azure EA Content Pack
• Security Baseline
  • Azure Blueprints
  • Azure Policy
  • Azure Security Center
  • Azure Sentinel
  • Subscription Design
  • Encryption
  • Hybrid Identity
  • Azure Networking
  • Azure Automation

• Resource Consistency
  • Azure Blueprints
  • Azure Policy
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Advisor
  • Resource Manager Templates
  • Resource Graph
  • Management Groups
• Identity Baseline
  • Azure Blueprints
  • RBAC
  • Azure AD
  • Azure AD B2B
  • Azure AD B2C
  • Directory Federation
  • Directory Replication
• Development Acceleration
  • Azure Blueprint
  • Azure Policy
  • Resource Grouping & Tagging
  • Resource Manager Templates
  • Azure Advisor
  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Azure Backup
  • Azure Automation

3rd PARTY TOOLS -Following third parties can be used to accomplish similar goals:

• Cost Management
  • HashiCorp Terraform
• Security Baseline
  • Splunk
  • HashiCorp Vault

• Resource Consistency
  • ServiceNow
  • HashiCorp Terraform
• Identity Baseline
  • HashiCorp Vault
• Development Acceleration
  • Nagios
  • HashiCorp Terraform
  • Developer Tools like Chef, Puppet

Reference - https://aka.ms/CAF/Gov

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