Enable Azure VM SKUs with Azure Policy
Explore how to use Azure Policy in the Azure Portal to assign policies that control allowed VM SKUs and enforce OS and data disk encryption with customer-managed keys. Learn to configure scope, parameters, and non-compliance messages to automate governance and improve security in your Azure environment.
We'll cover the following...
In this lesson, we’ll explore how to use Azure Portal to apply some policies to our subscriptions. We’ll cover the following two cases here:
- Azure policy to allow VM SKUs
- OS and data disks encrypted with a customer-managed key
Why do we need to configure these types of policies?
Allowing Azure VM SKUs with Azure Policy
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Navigate over to Azure Portal and log in.
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On the Azure home page, enter “Policy” in the search bar and click “Policy” from the search results. It will open up a policy management dashboard called the Azure Policy page.
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Select “Definitions” from the “Authoring” section on the left. It will load all the definitions which we can filter out.
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Next, ...