Azure Policy is a way of enforcing standards and guardrails and assessing resource compliance. In Azure, the compliance dashboard offers an aggregated view to validate the state of the platform with additional options to see the resources that are not compliant. Policy An Azure Policy itself evaluates resources within Azure based on the rules you… READ MORE
After my talk at the Virtual Azure Community Day, I promised I’d deliver a series of articles about my adventures with Gatekeeper on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). In Part 1, I told you all about Rego, the domain-specific language (DSL) that is used by Open Policy Agent (OPA). In Part 2, I explained how to set up and use… READ MORE
In one on my videos on my YouTube channel, I talked about Kubernetes authentication and used the image below: To secure access to the Kubernetes API server, you need to be authenticated and properly authorized to do what you need to do. The third mechanism to secure access is admission control. Simply put, admission control allows you to… READ MORE
Azure services have become an integral part of many environments. These architectures have different requirements for compliance, budget, security, access levels and more.
With everything becoming more cloudified, things can get a little more complicated when you need to Govern Azure. That is especially so for networking, even more so if you’re using hybrid networking and connecting your cloud networks to your on-premises networks, either through Site-to-Site (S2S) VPN, or ExpressRoute. If you’re responsible for the network, you want to… READ MORE
