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Generally available: New Azure Monitor audit logging policy released
Azure Monitor is announcing the release of new Azure Policy built-in policies and initiatives for enabling platform logging of audit events for Azure services.
October 2021
General availability: Azure governance policy for Azure Key Vault
Integration of Azure Key Vault with Azure Policy has reached general availability and is now ready for production use. Azure Policy provides the ability to place guardrails on Key Vault and its objects to ensure they are compliant with your organizations security recommendations and compliance regulations. It allows you to perform real time policy-based enforcement and on-demand compliance assessment of existing secrets in your Azure environment.
September 2021
General availability: Update in policy compliance for Azure Kubernetes Policies
Azure Kubernetes policies now surface error states to you, providing important information about potential errors in your environment.
Custom AKS policy support - now public preview
Azure Policy and AKS teams announce the public preview of custom policy support for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. With this feature is enabled, you can create and assign custom policy definitions and constraint templates to their AKS clusters, see enhanced error state information for troubleshooting, use embedded constraint template inside policy definitions, and more.
August 2021
Public preview: Apply settings inside machines using Azure Policy's guest configuration
Azure Policy can audit or configure settings inside a machine, both for machines running in Azure and Arc-enabled hybrid machines.
July 2021
General availability: New Azure Monitor built-in policy for Log Analytics workspace and linked automation account
A new Azure Monitor built-in policy gives you control to provision central Log Analytics workspaces and linked automation account across your subscriptions consistently.
June 2021
General availability: Update in Policy Compliance for Resource Type Policies
Azure Policy built-in policies in which resource type is the only evaluation criterion (e.g. Allowed Resource Types, Disallowed Resource Types) have updated logic to provide a more accurate assessment of your overall environment when aggregated with other policies.
April 2021
Azure Site Recovery now supports Azure Policy in public preview
Leverage Azure Policy to enable Azure Site Recovery for your VMs at scale and ensure organizational standards.
General availability: New Azure Policy built-in definitions for data encryption in Azure Monitor
With Azure Monitor built-in policy definitions for data encryption, you can enforce organizational standards and assess compliance of data encryption settings in your environment.
November 2020
Export and manage Azure Policy as code with GitHub
New integrations in between Azure Policy and GitHub are now in public preview.
October 2020
Azure Policy for Key Vault now supports keys, secrets, and certificates
Get a deeper view into your organization's security posture, configure daily automated audits, and start enforcing best practices in under 5 minutes.
September 2020
GA: Policy add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service
You can now set policies beyond the Azure Resource Manager level and drive in-depth compliance across pods, namespaces, ingress, and other Kubernetes resources.
Azure Arc enabled servers are now generally available
Azure Arc enabled servers are now generally available for Windows and Linux servers outside of Azure
August 2020
Azure Policy Compliance Scan Action for GitHub Workflows is in public preview
Trigger on-demand Azure policy compliance scan on Azure resources from GitHub workflows and proceed/fail workflow execution depending on compliance state of resources.
July 2020
Secure Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) pods with Azure Policy (in preview)
To improve the security of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster, secure your pods with Azure Policy (in preview). Users can choose from a list of built-in options and apply those policies to secure pods.
May 2020
Azure Policy for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in preview
Audit and enforce configurations on your resources at scale across all your Azure resources with Azure Policy. Use Azure Policy for AKS to set policies on pods, namespaces, and ingress in between others.
November 2019
Introducing the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is proven guidance to accelerate your cloud adoption journey. It’s a collection of tools, guidance, and best practices to help shape your cloud strategy and achieve the desired business goals.
October 2019
Azure Resource Graph—New join support functionality is now available
Azure Resource Graph now supports join, enabling you to correlate between resources and their properties.
September 2019
Azure provides at-scale tags management through Azure Policy
Azure Policy now supports remediation for tagging so you can bring 100% of your resources back to compliance.
July 2019
Azure Resource Graph is now generally available
Azure Resource Graph, which enables exploration of your resources at scale, is now generally available for all Azure customers.
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