Production Readiness in Azure - A Practical Guide

Explore a comprehensive guide to achieving production readiness in Azure. Dive deep into crucial concepts and practices for preparing an environment for production deployment. Cover everything from infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and security hardening to monitoring, reporting, operations, and process automation with integrations to various Azure-provided and third-party tools. Follow along as a semi-complex sample application is introduced and enriched step-by-step, demonstrating each concept and practice in a practical manner. Learn how to define monitoring strategies, consolidate Azure Monitor workspaces, implement data collection and onboarding at scale, operationalize Azure Security Center, configure Service Health alerts, set up ChatOps with Slack and Logic Apps, and avoid secrets in application code. Gain valuable insights into the shared responsibility model, supportability, and how to operationalize Azure Advisor for optimal performance and efficiency in your Azure production environment.

Intro
Defining the WHAT
Checklists we tried
No silver bullet
Define monitoring strategy and architecture
Consolidate Azure Monitor workspaces
Data Collection & Onboarding
Onboarding at scale for Azure resources
Using Agents & Extensions for VMs & Servers
Onboarding at scale for Azure VMs
Operationalize Azure Security Center
Ensure security data collection
Shared responsibility model and supportability
Configure Service Health alerts
Azure Monitor Alerts: Notifications & Actions
ChatOps with Slack and Logic Apps
Pattern A: Event Grid, Logic App
Pattern B: Azure Monitor, Logic App
Avoid secrets in application code
Operationalize Azure Advisor