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Enterprise governance strategies: tags, policies, RBAC, and compliance automation for 31,000+ resources.
The governance trap: Teams implement Azure Policy, tag policies, and RBAC—then wonder why nobody follows them. The technical implementation was easy. Getting people to comply is the hard part.
Managing 31,000+ Azure resources taught me that effective governance requires three layers:
This hub contains the governance frameworks, tag strategies, and policy patterns I've used to maintain compliance in enterprise Azure environments—without creating bureaucracy that teams ignore.
Design tag taxonomies that teams will actually use
2025-09-23
Order, capitalization, spelling, and the Type tag that will save your sanity. Hard-earned lessons from real Azure environments.
Enforce governance at scale with Azure Policy and automation
2025-09-29
Three hours debugging certificate errors on fresh marketplace VMs. The culprit? Microsoft's own infrastructure serving outdated dependencies.
2025-09-24
Opened Azure Update Manager and saw 1,791 VMs that need updates? Here's the uncomfortable truth about what that number really means and the KQL queries to find your real target.
KQL dashboards and workbooks for governance reporting
2025-09-28
Free Azure Monitor Workbook template with 200+ services, security monitoring, cost optimization, and global filtering. Enhanced version of Billy York's inventory workbook with full source code on GitHub.
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