Implementing and assigning Azure policies with Azure Portal
- Navigate to the Azure portal by opening https://portal.azure.com
- Open the resource group.
- Then, under Settings, select Policies:
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- Click on the Getting started menu item. You will see a page that is similar to the following:
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- The first step is to view and select the policy definition. Select the View Definitions link on the page.
- You will go to the available built-in and custom policies inside your subscription. On the righthand side, type Locations in the search bar:
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- Then, select the Allowed locations policy; you will be redirected to the blade where you can see the policy definition in JSON and assign the policy:
- Click on Assign in the top menu.
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- To assign the policy, you have to fill in the following values:
- Scope: Select a subscription, and, optionally, a resource group.
- Allowed locations: Only select Central US, as demonstrated in the following screenshot
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- Click on Assign. The policy will be assigned to the resource group.
- Now, when we add a new resource to the resource group (such as a new VM, for instance) and set the location to East US, we will notice a validation error on the top-left of the screen. When you click on it, you will see the following details on the right-hand side of the screen:
