Azure Governance
Azure Governance is a portfolio of platform capabilities that helps customers address the need for control at scale without sacrificing developer agility. This includes services like Azure Policy, Azure Blueprints, Azure Resource Graph & Management Groups.
More details about the services are available in the Azure Governance documentation. If you have a technical issue, please open a post on the developer forums through Stack Overflow.
Products that we listen to in this space include: Azure Policy, Azure Blueprints, Azure Resource Graph, Azure Subscriptions and Azure Management Groups
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Azure Policy - Support for RegEx in Match Conditions
Right now, the "Match" and "notMatch" conditions only support # for digit placeholders and ? for letters. This is okay, but it would be much more useful to support regex expressions. This would needed for define complex naming policies and tagging standards.
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Support for functions in Resource Manager Policies
Support for functions in Resource Manager Policies:
{
"if": {"field": "tags",
"exists": "false"},
"then": {"effect": "append",
"details": [
{
"field": "tags",
"value": { "creator": "CurrentUser()" }
},
{
"field": "tags",
"value": { "created": "DatetTime()" }
}
]}
}36 votesPolicy is not user aware so we are not able to do something like CurrentUser(). However, date and time is available using policy.
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Show user friendly message when Azure Policy does not meet compliance
We have created custom policy which checking tags existence when a user creates a new resource group. The policy works great.
But we have faced unexpected behavior. When we tried to create a new resource group for test purposes (without tags) we had an uninformative error (Unexpected error while creating the resource group.).
We think some people might have a misunderstanding about this message (From this message they won’t understand why they cannot create a new resource group).
We investigated this issue but have not found trouble in the policy itself therefore right now we think it is an azure…30 votesHi,
Thanks for your feedback. We are continuously adding more information error messages to improve them. Thank you for being this case to light and we will take a look and update as needed.
- Azure Governance Team
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Integrate Azure Policy with Azure DevOps
Recently, I started working with Azure Policies. In that, am able to create Azure Policy through portal successfully and now am trying to do same with the help of Azure DevOps. According to documentation there is a chance to integrate Azure Policy with Azure DevOps, but there is no more information regarding to that.
23 votesHi,
Thanks for your feedback. We currently have a partnership with the Azure DevOps team to better improve this experience. We do have some built-in tasks and compliance gates and are working on reamp them. We recently publish documentation on Designing Policy as Code workflows and will add more documentation as our improvements develop.
Thank you,
Azure Policy Team
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Provide an "otherwise" effect
It would be useful to have an operator that provides the behavior:
If {conditionA} is True AND If {conditionB} is True
Then {effect}
Otherwise {no-effect}.For example, the attached file demonstrates a possible policy definition that would restrict Public IP names to only those listed and ignore names of resources that are not Public IP addresses.
The apparent behavior of the allOf operator is to require all conditions to be applied to all resources which requires anticipatory knowledge of resources currently generated by Marketplace templates. For example, the NIC is now generated automatically by the new VM wizard and the…
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Allow more rich symbols while using Match in Policy definition
I am using Management groups and wanted to roll out multiple naming policy.
I have various clients hence thought of a consistent manner to support and organize Resource groups/Resources in a consistent way. i.e <Cleint>-<Prod/Dev>-RGP-<Name>.
So it would sort out like
CL1-PROD-RGP-MyFirstRG
CL1-PROD-RGP-AnotherOne
CL2-DEV-RGP-NNNN
CL3-PROD-RGP-aaabut unfortunately found that match could not support a symbol which would represent letter or number in same symbol. Details can be seen in the closed feedback thread on the following page.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-policy/scripts/allow-multiple-name-patterns
It would really help enforce a consistent naming convention.
Not sure how fast help can arrive from MS?20 votesHi Omar,
Thank you for the feedback. I will share this with the Policy team to see what options they currently have or if this is on their roadmap.Thanks
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Azure Policy Effect - DenyIfNotExist
Scenario: If you want to prevent the modification (or creation) of an object unless it has a required property present. That way, instead of just auditing if the object is in compliance (by checking for the presence of the property), you're preventing the object from drifting out of compliance by the denyIfNotExists effect, and stopping the update operation before it can modify the object.
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Azure Policy - Indexed mode policies pick up resources that don't support tags
For example, I created a custom policy definition that audits if a tag exists. It is set mode=indexed, so only taggable and location based resources should be evaluated.
Here are some things that are coming back as non-compliant:
/microsoft.insights/alertrules
/microsoft.insights/actiongroups
/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/extensions
/microsoft.insights/activitylogalerts
/microsoft.operationsmanagement/solutions
/microsoft.portal/dashboards14 votes -
Azure Policy - Export compliance report to CSV
Add an export to CSV button to the policy compliance screen. The Policy screens can be quite cluttered and clunky. But I can get compliance data from multiple assignments at once. I would like to be able to then export that compliance data so that I can slice and dice the data, augment the data and steward compliance (say in a new policy roll-out) from Excel.
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Azure Policy - Add friendly / custom error messages for deny policies
When someone tries to create a resource that is blocked by policy, they get an ugly JSON output that doesn't really provide any details as to why they failed validation. The best that they can get (if they find it) is the name of the policy or initiative. It would be much nicer to be able to enter and error description when defining the policies / initiatives and provide links to internal KB articles for how they should remedy the problem.
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Azure Policy development environment
Developing policy is a nightmare, missing efficient debugging tools, information on the way they are calculated, etc. We need authoring tool to be able to efficiently develop and test policies.
10 votesWe are working on releasing a Visual Studio Code extension that helps in developing policies by having a alias lookup, syntax highlighting and autocomplete functionality. We are hoping to expand the extension to support compliance testing after that release.
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Azure Policy - Enable faster (itterative) development of Policies
When developping Policies, testing is a very time consuming process as Policy evaluation takes place once every 30 minutes. You can trigger an on-demand scan, but it still takes a lot more time and effort than I'd like to be able to try filters and logic fast.
9 votesWe are working on a VS code extension for Azure Policy that evaluates a resource in seconds.
-Liz
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Azure Policy template for all options available in the Azure portal
Allow Azure Policies to be created by having a "generate policy" option available next to each option available in the Azure portal. Every configuration item should have the ability to be created as a policy and making this easy through the portal for each Azure component and option would make it easy to manage configuration compliance.
9 votesThanks for the valid suggestion. Your feedback is now open for the user community to upvote & comment on. This allows us to effectively prioritize your request against our existing backlog and also gives us insight into the potential impact of implementing the suggested feature.
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Azure Policy to check whether the Management group follows naming Pattern
Hello,
currently, we cannot create an azure Policy which checks whether the management group follows naming pattern.
It will be better if this feature is added to the Azure policy8 votes -
Azure Policy template for auditing/restricting public blob sharing
Currently, Azure storage allows for the public sharing of blobs. It would be great to be able to use Azure policy to detect (and remediate) this feature.
7 votesComing soon!
Azure Storage team will introduce a property on Storage Accounts that can override the container-level settings.
We will soon support auditing or denying storage accounts that are open to public network. Remediation will be coming further down the road.
-Liz
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Azure Policy
When we apply Azure Policy to the SQL DB created through stored procedure, the Policy is not triggering its effect on that resource as these resources are not created in ARM layer. We know that policy evaluation happens on the ARM layer. But it would be great if Policy team could add this feature in the Policy so that Policy evaluation happens on the resources created through stored procedure as well.
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Azure Policy - Support for Rego Syntax
It would be great for companies who are working across the major cloud vendors and on AKS if Azure Policy supported the use of OPA and rego policy syntax in addition to the current json format. This would allow companies to adopt a single policy language and use it in multiple contexts.
6 votesAzure Policy uses Rego language for its AKS Policy (in limited public preview today): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/support-policies
It does not support custom policy definitions yet, as we plan to move to Gatekeeper v.3 which has breaking change in its policy language.
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policy for tags enumeration
Set a policy, that only certain values are allowed on a specific tag.
For instance, if you set the tag: "Environment", you can only set the values "Dev" or "Prod" nothing else will be accepted. (An enumeration of unlimited numbers please)If a tag is needed in the Azure Portal (UI) Then an combobox (drop down) should be presented.
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Azure Policy: Custom Rules
AWS Config has the ability to define custom rules, where the rule evaluation is run within a lambda function: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/evaluate-config_develop-rules.html
It would be nice if Azure Policy had an equivalent capability--that way, arbitrarily complex evaluations could be defined by using a language such as python instead of being limited to what the policy definition's JSON language supports
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Azure Policy Evalution via Customer API
Currently Azure Policy is comprised of Definitions and Assigments applied at various scopes. From what I can gather, this leads to the policy assignments being evaluated during ARM requests for the applicable scope. I would assume this happens in some sort of processing pipeline for the resource request.
Within our org, we provide Azure services as a bundled product with opinionated configuration options enforced. To accomplish this, we work with multiple custom policies that have become too complex to declare in the current Policy object JSON syntax (think 500-1,000 line definition files with multiple nestings).
Ideally, we would like to…
5 votes
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