A structured field guide for designing, governing, securing, automating, and operating enterprise workloads on Microsoft Azure. The content focuses on landing-zone decisions, identity, networking, governance, security, infrastructure as code, observability, resilience, and hybrid integration.
Note
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| Goal | Recommended entry point |
|---|---|
| Establish architecture principles | Core design principles |
| Design a landing zone | Landing-zone blueprint |
| Organize subscriptions and governance | Management groups and Azure Policy |
| Design identity and access | Identity architecture and roles and policies |
| Build enterprise networking | VNet design and ExpressRoute/VPN |
| Automate deployments | Bicep and Terraform |
| Secure workloads and secrets | Defender for Cloud and Key Vault |
| Monitor operations | Log Analytics and alerts and insights |
| Connect hybrid environments | Azure Arc and hybrid identity |
| Domain | Key concerns |
|---|---|
| Architecture and governance | Landing zones, management groups, policy, subscription organization, and platform ownership |
| Identity and security | Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, privileged access, Defender for Cloud, secrets, and key management |
| Networking | Address planning, hub-and-spoke topology, hybrid connectivity, routing, DNS, and private access |
| Compute, storage, and data | Workload placement, availability, scale, backup, disaster recovery, and managed databases |
| Automation and DevOps | Bicep, Terraform, Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, and repeatable deployment controls |
| Monitoring and operations | Log Analytics, alerts, platform health, operational ownership, and response procedures |
| Hybrid cloud | Azure Arc, identity synchronization, connectivity, governance, and migration considerations |
- Define business, security, compliance, availability, and data-residency requirements.
- Establish tenant, management-group, subscription, identity, and policy foundations.
- Design connectivity, DNS, shared services, observability, and security controls.
- Implement infrastructure through reviewed, version-controlled Bicep or Terraform.
- Validate resilience, backup, recovery, cost controls, operational ownership, and incident response before production onboarding.
This repository is an architectural and operational reference, not a substitute for a workload-specific design review. See ROADMAP.md for planned improvements and docs/index.md for the documentation index.
Licensed under the MIT License. Maintained by @mohamedmahersaid.