Configuring Azure Policies

Understand your options for authentication, hosting strategies, and monitoring the results of policies.

• Authentication & Access
• Logging, Metrics and Output

Hosting Options

The Azure provider for Cloud Custodian can be hosted by Azure Functions or in a containerized environment like ACI or AKS. Both hosting options have periodic and event based execution modes.

For a quick and inexpensive start to running custodian policies, Azure Functions are a good hosting strategy. The Azure Container Host requires more up-front configuration, but can make running a large number of policies against multiple subscriptions more maintainable.

• Azure Functions Hosting
• Azure Container Hosting
• Tutorial - ACI Deployment
• Tutorial - Helm Deployment