About this episode

Richard Campbell interviews Barbara Forbes about the evolution and implementation of Azure Policies for improved security and efficiency.

How can Azure Policies help you? While at Techorama in Belgium, Richard sat down with Barbara Forbes to discuss how Azure Policies have evolved and the techniques sysadmins are using to improve security, cost controls, efficiency, and more. Barbara talks about how the default policies are designed to get folks started in Azure quickly - not necessarily optimally. And there are plenty of policy templates out there, but before you implement them, it's worthwhile to review each policy and ask the question "why?" Keeping good documentation on policies makes it easier to know intent, especially when it comes to changing them - and you'll need to change them! There are a number of ways to apply policies, but in the end, they are just more Infrastructure-as-Code, and so easily repeatable. Azure Policies are there to help you provide freedom with guardrails if you implement them carefully!

People in this episode

Host: Richard Campbell

Guest: Barbara Forbes

Topics covered

• Azure Policies
• security
• cost controls
• efficiency
• Infrastructure-as-Code

Keywords

• Azure
• Policies
• sysadmins
• documentation
• Infrastructure-as-Code
• security
• cost control

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Techorama

Products: Azure Policies

Places: Belgium

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