Azure Policy - Reference

Azure Policy allows you to define and enforce organizational standards and rules across your Azure environment. It helps ensure that your resources are configured in a consistent and compliant manner.

• Policy Sets: Collections of policies that represent a specific environment or scope.
• Policy Definitions: The actual rules that determine the desired state of your resources.
• Assignments: Operations that apply policy definitions to a scope (subscription, resource group, or individual resource).

Azure Policy offers various policy types, including:

• Binary: Evaluates to true or false.
• Regulated: For compliance and regulatory reporting.
• Custom: For defining policies specific to your organization's requirements.

Below are examples of common policy definitions. (Detailed examples with JSON configuration can be found at the examples page)

              
                {
                  "mode": "Indexed",
                  "policyRule": {
                    "if": {
                      "allOf": [
                        {
                          "field": "type",
                          "notEquals": "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines"
                        }
                      ]
                    },
                    "then": {
                      "effect": "Audit"
                    }
                  }
                }