Production Readiness in Azure - A Practical Guide

This session demonstrates production readiness practices by progressively enriching a sample Azure application. It covers resource provisioning and onboarding, security hardening, monitoring, reporting, operations, and process automation with Azure and third-party tools.

Syllabus

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