Landing zone and IaC setup on Azure
New workloads land in an environment that already meets policy. We build the landing zone as versioned Bicep modules covering identity, network and subscription structure, and hand the repository to your platform team.
Why the baseline comes first
Cloud estates rarely start ungoverned; they drift there. The first subscriptions are created by hand under deadline, the next twenty copy whatever was clicked, and identity boundaries, network segmentation and tagging survive only as tribal knowledge in the heads of the people who built them.
By the time an audit or a cost review forces the question, the work is no longer configuration but retrofitting, and retrofitting guardrails onto running workloads means change windows, exceptions and a policy set nobody trusts to enforce. A landing zone is cheap to define and expensive to reverse-engineer. You decide it now or you inherit it later.
What a landing zone settles once, so nobody re-decides it
Five decisions that get made either deliberately or by accident.
Environments created by hand. Each one slightly different, and none of them reproducible.
Identity improvised per project. Access is granted case by case and nobody audits it afterwards.
Policies applied manually. Compliance depends on someone remembering to apply the control.
No cost attribution. Tagging is inconsistent, so spend cannot be allocated to anyone.
Each team reinvents the baseline. Networking, logging and security are solved again in every project.
What the engagement includes
We set up one governed landing zone and the code that reproduces it. Everything below arrives as Bicep or Terraform modules in your Git repository, reviewed with your platform team before handover. If you run fewer than five subscriptions and have no regulatory obligations, a naming standard is enough; we will say so on the first call.
Landing zone design
Subscription topology, network, identity and security baseline aligned to your operating model.
Infrastructure as code
The whole zone codified, versioned and deployable, with reusable modules for the teams.
Policy and guardrails
Governance, tagging and cost policies enforced automatically across subscriptions.
Golden paths
Templates so a team can provision a compliant environment without talking to the platform team.
What you take away
- Landing zone architecture
- IaC repository and modules
- Policy set in production
- Templates and documentation
Set up your landing zone
A 90-minute session on your current tenant. You leave with a gap list against the Azure landing zone baseline and a scoped plan.
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