📌 Azure Landing Zone Baseline & 4 Terraform open-source tools to make it secure and cost-efficient

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As we all know, designing a well-architected and well-governed foundation is crucial for supporting workloads on the cloud. To ensure that we're meeting the needs of our organization while complying with regulatory requirements, we can look at the Azure Landing Zone Baseline. It provides a well-designed, scalable, and secure infrastructure that can be customized to meet our specific context.

The network topology used is the hub and spoke model, which is a common and proven architecture for enterprise networking. The hub serves as a central point of control, where all connections come in, and the spoke represents the individual workloads or applications.

The Hub Network contains an Azure Firewall, which provides centralized and comprehensive network security. The firewall policies can be configured based on the organization's security requirements. There is also a gateway for VPN connectivity, which allows remote access to the hub and spoke resources. The Jump host serves as an entry point for connections to the spoke and can be used for administrative purposes.

The Spoke Vnet contains an AKS Cluster, which is a managed Kubernetes service that simplifies the deployment and management of containerized applications. The Mysql Flexible server is a fully-managed, and scalable database service. The KeyVault is used to store and manage cryptographic keys and secrets.

The Azure Landing Zone Baseline is designed to be scalable, and it can serve as a baseline for pre-production and production stages. It can be customized by modifying the variables listed in the templates. These variables include passwords, IP addresses, location, address space, tags, and other configurations.

While implementing the Azure Landing Zone Baseline, one of the challenges that we may encounter is ensuring that the infrastructure is secure and adheres to industry best practices. Using Terraform commands like Terraform validate and Terraform Plan, Infracost, and Tfsec as part of your CI/CD pipeline can help us validate and test the infrastructure before deployment, and ensure that it is secure and efficient.


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