Managing Cloud and Datacenter by Tao Yang

Background Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the preferred way for almost every mature organisation to deploy and manage resources on cloud platforms.

Introduction I have made various updates to the AzPolicyFactory solution over the past few months.

Introduction AzPolicyLens is a solution that automatically generates insights and reports based on Azure Policy data.

One of the most challenging and time-consuming aspects of managing Azure Policy at scale is ensuring the policy does what it’s supposed to do without causing unexpected issues in the environment.

Background I have developed several Azure Policy-related solutions for various customers over the last 4-5 years.

Since I have recently started a new role as a full-time Microsoft employee, my existing GitHub account tyconsulting that I have been using for 10+ years doesn’t sound appropriate since it was originally created for my consulting business.

12 years is a long time.

Background Many customers have gone down the route of developing, publishing and sharing internally developed Azure IaC modules within the organization.

I have updated the AzPolicyTest PowerShell module (GitHub, PowerShell Gallery) to v2.8.0.

I have 3 Mac computers running on the latest version of MacOS, and PowerShell is installed on all of them using Homebrew: brew install powershell/tap/powershell I also have VSCode and the PowerShell extension installed on all of them.