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Azure Landing Zone Starter

Create governed subscriptions/resource groups, identity, policy, networking and logging baseline.

Capstone in Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineering.

Recommended effort24 hoursCourse levelIntermediateSuggested teamIndividual or team of 2-3

The project brief

The business challenge

An Azure foundation needs coordinated subscription, identity, policy, network and logging controls before workloads are added.

Shared method: define the requirement, design and build the solution, then test and document the result.

Project brief

Test scenarios

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01 · Test scenario

Governance deployment

Deploy the infrastructure code and compare the subscriptions or resource groups with the governance design.

02 · Test scenario

Identity and policy

Test an allowed action and a restricted action against the documented identity and policy controls.

03 · Test scenario

Logging baseline

Generate a test event and check its visibility in the monitoring dashboard.

Inside the working solution

What you will build

  • 01Governed Azure subscriptions and resource groups
  • 02Identity, policy and networking baseline
  • 03Infrastructure as code and logging/monitoring

Your final submission

What you will present

  • Governance design
  • IaC
  • Policy set
  • Monitoring dashboard

Technology workspace

The tools behind the build

Review the tools and skills used in this project brief.

Microsoft Azure

Deploy enterprise cloud, identity, compute and application services

Entra ID

Use Entra ID within guided implementation, testing and portfolio workflows

Terraform

Provision repeatable infrastructure through code

Azure Policy

Use Azure Policy within guided implementation, testing and portfolio workflows

Project brief

Acceptance criteria

Review the governance baseline and monitoring evidence for the deployed Azure resources.

  • Governance design and infrastructure code describe the Azure baseline.
  • The policy set covers the documented identity and resource controls.
  • The monitoring dashboard shows evidence from the deployed environment.

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