It has been some time since I wrote my Azure Policy Starter Guide, in which I briefly touched upon the challenges of testing custom Azure Policy definitions. Azure Policy testing still remains an open question for me, offering a lot of room for vario...
This blog post follows up on my series on running CMDB for Azure resources. In the previous parts, I shared some guiding principles for organizing your CMDB using Azure tags, so here, I will cover some practical examples of keeping your Azure tags ne...
Mastering a new tool might be challenging, so here I will share my best practices for working with Azure Policy. Those tips are based on my experience and intended to complement my Azure Policy Starter Guide. Although most of them will be about prett...
What is Azure Hybrid Benefit? From the cost perspective, the resulting price for an Azure resource is calculated from multiple parts, software licenses being one of them. For example, when using the Azure Pricing Calculator and estimating your Azure ...
It has been a while since I last wrote about Azure Policy, and recently, there was a lot of hype around Bicep, so I decided to give it a try and shed some light on creating and deploying custom Azure policies with that new language. Prerequisites I a...
My coworkers and teammates often reach out to me with similar questions regarding the best practices for creating and applying Azure Policy. That tendency encouraged me to compile this starter guide for Azure Policy, which is based on my practical ex...
