Azure NoOps Accelerator

"NoOps is not about the elimination of ops; it is about the elimination of manual handoffs and low-value, rote administration." - Forrester

Azure NoOps Accelerator is a flexible foundation that enables US Department of Defense and other Public Sector customers to quickly develop and maintain opinionated, policy-driven, and self-service encalves in their Azure environments.

Delivered as a collection of infrastructure as code (IaC) module templates written in Bicep, the NoOps Accelerator is intended to empower organizations on their journey to a continuous deployment model for their cloud infrastructure.

Quickstart

You can use the NoOps Accelerator to deploy SCCA-compliant landing zones based on Microsoft's SACA implementation guidance and Mission Landing Zone architecture.

Deploy a SCCA-compliant Landing Zone (SCCA Hub with 3 Spokes) using the Azure CLI

These steps walk through how to use NoOps to deploy a hub and spoke architecture. At the conclusion, you will have five resources groups mapped to the following:

• Hub: SCCA-compliant networking hub (1 vnet, 1 resource group)
• Tier 0 (T0): Identity & Authorization (1 vnet, 1 resource group)
• Tier 1 (T1): Infrastrcture Operations, and Logging (1 vnet, 2 resource groups)
• Tier 2 (T2): DevSecOps & Shared Services (1 vnet, 1 resource group)

Steps:

1. Clone the repository down and change directory to the lz-platform-scca-hub-3spoke directory

   git clone https://github.com/Azure/NoOpsAccelerator.git
   cd NoOpsAccelerator/src/bicep/platforms/lz-platform-scca-hub-3spoke
   

2. Deploy the landing zone with the az deployment sub create command. For a quickstart, we suggest a test deployment into the current AZ CLI subscription using these parameters:

   • --name: (optional) The deployment name, which is visible in the Azure Portal under Subscription/Deployments.
   • --location: (required) The Azure region to store the deployment metadata.
   • --template-file: The file path to the deploy.bicep template.
   • --parameters: The file path to the parameters/deploy.parameters.json file, preceeded by @. Individual parameters can be overwritten using <parameter>=<value> format as well.
   • --subscription: The GUID for the subscription to deploy into. Multiple subscriptions may be configured (i.e., to have separate subscriptions for each 'tier' in the MLZ architecture) in the parameters/deploy.parameters.json

   Here is an example that deploys into a single subscription in the EastUS region of Azure Commercial:

   az deployment sub create 
     --name deploy-scca-hub-with-3-spokes
     --location EastUS 
     --template-file deploy.bicep  
     --parameters @parameters/deploy.parameters.json 
     --subscription xxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx
   

3. After a successful deployment, see the enclaves folder for examples of complete, outcome-driven solutions built using the NoOps Accelerator. Also, be sure to take a look through our workloads and overlays folders to get a sense of the available pieces you can put together with the platform you just deployed to solve your mission challenges.

4. Don't forget to clean-up your environment by removing all of the resource groups created by the deployment when you are done with this Quickstart.

Don't have Azure CLI? Here's how to get started with Azure Cloud Shell in your browser: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-shell/overview

Goals and Non-Goals of the NoOps Project

• be amazing

Getting Started

NoOps is amaze. Definitions of NoOps primitives. @matross-ghes

Architecture

a few useful pictures here.

Telemetry

Microsoft can identify the deployments of the Azure Resource Manager and Bicep templates with the deployed Azure resources. Microsoft can correlate these resources used to support the deployments. Microsoft collects this information to provide the best experiences with their products and to operate their business. The telemetry is collected through customer usage attribution. The data is collected and governed by Microsoft's privacy policies, located at https://www.microsoft.com/trustcenter.

If you don't wish to send usage data to Microsoft, you can set the customerUsageAttribution.enabled setting to false in global/telemetry.json.

Project Bicep collects telemetry in some scenarios as part of improving the product.

Product Roadmap

Contributing

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Special Thanks and Liner Notes

This project is greatly influenced by and owes a debt of graititue to the following:

• Common Azure Resource Modules Library
• Azure Landing Zones for Canadian Public Sector
• Mission Landing Zone