What are Azure Blueprints (and how can they help with compliance)?

In this video, Mike Brown, cloud expert and instructor at Firebrand, explains what are Azure Blueprints and how they can help with compliance.

He also demonstrates:

- How to create an Azure Blueprint
- Defining artefacts for the Azure Blueprint to deploy
- How to deploy an Azure Blueprint

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TRANSCRIPT SUMMARY

Hi there, welcome to this Firebrand Q&A. My name is Mike Brown and I'm a senior
cloud instructor here at Firebrand Training.

These Q&A sessions are designed so that we can answer some of the questions that are asked by our students, questions that are asked of us on a regular basis. We hope to provide answers to questions in these sessions and where appropriate provide demonstrations of the features
being discussed.

Let's take a look at the question that we're going to try and answer today. Today's question: what are Azure Blueprints and how can they help with compliance?

At the time of recording Azure Blueprints are still in preview, but they have the potential to be a
great asset for anyone working in Azure.

Azure Blueprints will allow cloud architects to:
Define a set of rules that Azure subscriptions must abide by, by providing security controls and compliance controls to those subscriptions;
Allow resources to be deployed to Azure but those deployed resources must conform to security best practices;
And Azure blueprints will allow us to rapidly deploy new environments which comply with our organizational standards.

When creating an Azure blueprint they will allow us to deploy rule assignments, policy assignments, Azure manager templates, and resource groups. So let's take a look at blueprints in action.

In this demonstration we will:
Create a new Azure blueprint
Define artifacts for the Azure Blueprint to deploy
And show how the newest Azure blueprint can be deployed

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So what are Azure blueprints and how can they help with compliance?

Well, they allow us to map our security and compliance requirements to a group of artifacts that we can deploy together;
They enforced standard configurations for existing and new subscriptions;
And give us a configuration that we can repeat, so that we have predictable results.

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