Description:

  • Defines the how the resources are created and configured
  • One or more policy definitions are grouped into an Azure Initiative Definition, to control the scope of your policies and evaluate the compliance of your resources.

Consider:

  • Consider deployable resources. Specify the resource types that your organization can deploy by using Azure Policy. You can specify the set of virtual machine SKUs that your organization can deploy.
  • Consider location restrictions. Restrict the locations your users can specify when deploying resources. You can choose the geographic locations or regions that are available to your organization.
  • Consider rules enforcement. Enforce compliance rules and configuration options to help manage your resources and user options. You can enforce a required tag on resources and define the allowed values.
  • Consider inventory audits. Use Azure Policy with Azure Backup service on your VMs and run inventory audits.

1. Definitions:

2. Assignments:

  • policy definition describes the compliance conditions for a resource, and the actions to complete when the conditions are met.