You can not see them, but without them nothing works. Foundations need to be well planned, as only on a stable foundation you can build walls.
The right foundation for a stable underground
Landing Zones with Azure Foundation
You can not see them, but without them nothing works. Foundations need to be well planned, as only on a stable foundation you can build walls.
glueckkanja Azure Foundation
Why do you need a foundation?
The cloud offers many useful and success-critical tools for product and process digitization. Despite massive time pressure, companies face the challenge of putting the cloud on a secure and sustainable foundation. With Azure Foundation, glueckkanja offers the collection of Azure Landing Zone architectures and best practices from many successfully implemented projects. Automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployment ensure a fast implementation.
What you get with Azure Foundation
Organizational structure
- Tenant setup
- Organization of management groups and subscriptions
- Development and application of the tagging strategy
- Definition and implementation of the naming convention
Logging & Monitoring
- Creation of a dedicated audit log
- Automating the Azure monitoring
- Using and configuring Azure Cost Management
App-Zone Provisioner
- Introduction of dedicated logical units for a workload or application
- Enable multi-stage deployments (production - non-production)
- Including predefined resources and metadata
Security & Compliance
- Pre-selection of built-in Azure policies
- Application of customer-specific policies
- Integration of Azure Security Center
Networking
- Hub spoke topology with built-in scaling automation
- Central point of control for internal network traffic with Azure Firewall
- Predefined components that enable and control entry and exit
Automation & Tools
- Backup automation for VMs and blob storage
- Update and patch management
- Automatic cleaning
Access Management
- Workload access controlled by automation, RBAC and Entra ID
- Implementation of a secure bastion/jump host model
100 % Azure-native components & IaC deployment
- Templates and functions in source code control
- Pipeline deployment with test automation and quality gates
- Work item tracking with boards