This is the Azure track of the Well-Architected Framework series. Each post in this sub-series maps the five WAF pillars — Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Operational Excellence — to Azure-native services and patterns, with complete Terraform modules you can clone and deploy.
Azure's Well-Architected Framework leans heavily into Azure Landing Zones, Azure Policy, and Azure AD as foundational building blocks. The modules in this series are designed for enterprise workloads — the kind that need hub-spoke networking, Defender for Cloud, and governance at scale.
What's Covered
- Hub-spoke network topologies with Azure Firewall and UDRs
- Private AKS clusters with Azure AD RBAC and Workload Identity
- Azure Policy assignments for compliance guardrails
- Defender for Containers and Defender for Cloud
- Azure Monitor, Container Insights, and Managed Grafana
- Cost optimization with Spot VMs, Reserved Instances, and start/stop automation
- GitOps with Flux v2 on AKS