Separate governance from workload lifecycle
Management groups and subscriptions should reflect governance, billing and operational boundaries while allowing workloads to change independently.
Use policy for important invariants
Resource locations, diagnostics, tagging, network controls and security requirements are good candidates for enforceable guardrails.
Build the platform as code
Terraform or Bicep makes platform changes reviewable and repeatable while reducing configuration drift.
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