Posts from March 2017

Restricting Azure Resource Deployment by Region

This week, I’ve been studying some topics ahead of my 70-533 exam and one of the topics that I covered which I though would make a really relevant and hopefully not too long of a post would be the subject of restricting Azure resource deployment to specific regions.

Many organisations have considerations around data privacy and sovereignty. For me and many folks in the UK, right now that means your data is probably living in an Azure region in Europe. Either Dublin or Amsterdam. With the UK datacentres being brought online fairly recently and the available features growing month by month, it makes using those regions more appealing. With the prospect of Brexit and how your data soverignty may be effected by that shake up could potentially make those UK datacentres even more appealing in the months and years to come.

With an out of the box Azure subscription, we have the power to deploy resources to any region we like be it UK, US, South America or Asia but with these privacy and data protection concerns wouldn’t it be great if you could limit this so that even the most well trained administrators and users cannot accidently place your data on the wrong side of a pond?

Read on below the fold and I’ll explain how to create an Azure Resource Policy and how to apply that to your evironments.

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The GitHub Deploy to Azure Button

This is a really quick post but one I thought was worthy of getting down somewhere.

I’m starting to use GitHub more and more as a source for content and as I find myself wanting to produce the odd piece of content as well, I figured GitHub is where everyone else is sticking their Azure Resource Manager code so I should do the same.

For anyone that has looked on the official Azure team GitHub Repositories, you will have seen the blue Deploy to Azure button which is really nice as it directly takes you from GitHub over to Azure and links back to the GitHub Repository to start deploying the Resource Manager template without you having to download it and deploy it manually first.

The Azure team have a blog post over at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/deploy-to-azure-button-for-azure-websites-2/ which explains how you can use the Deploy to Azure button in your own repositories or even have it on your own website with a link back to a repository. It’s a nice touch, dead simple to implement by adding a line to the readme.md file and gives you that factory feel.

Enjoy.