Avoid the cost and complexity of designing and testing management group
hierarchy, Microsoft Entra ID and Azure RBAC, network foundations, and Azure
Policy guardrails from scratch.
Cloud infrastructure
shouldn't
be so hard
Building an Azure landing zone is often expensive, complicated, and requires significant
ongoing cost and expertise to configure, deploy, and maintain.
Even with the
Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Azure, you still need to define how
management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups should be structured, set up
Microsoft Entra ID and Azure RBAC, build network foundations, standardize security
controls, create guardrails with Azure Policy, configure tagging and monitoring, and
more.
And an Azure landing zone isn’t a one-time project, it’s a product you
now own. Your team is now responsible for every Azure change, security update, module
update, and standards drift, forever.
Accelerateyour landing zone setup in Azure
Gruntwork’s Azure Landing Zone is not a consulting service or a black-box package your team can’t maintain. We’ve taken the best practices behind Azure Landing Zones (ALZ) and combined them with IaC best practices and Gruntwork’s opinionated defaults.
The result stands up management groups, Microsoft Entra ID and Azure RBAC, network foundations, and Azure Policy guardrails, delivered as OpenTofu/Terraform code you own, with code-driven subscription vending and a GitOps workflow run by Gruntwork's own tooling.
Key components
Everything as Code
Landing zone configuration, subscription vending, pipelines, and updates are all
version-controlled and reviewable via PRs, making the foundation auditable and easy
to maintain.
Code Driven Subscription Vending
Bootstrap new Azure subscriptions through a pull-request workflow, preconfigured
with the right management group associations, networking baselines, Azure Policy
assignments, access patterns, and guardrails.
Resource and Subscription Tagging
Standardize a required tagging schema for every subscription, resource group, and
resource provisioned, providing FinOps with granular cost attribution via Azure Cost
Management.
CI/CD for Infrastructure
Pipelines provides a secure GitOps workflow for infrastructure: consistent
plan/apply patterns, guardrails around change management, and repeatable deployments
across environments.
Automated Drift Detection
Drift Detection that continuously checks that real infrastructure matches your IaC,
and opens a PR/MR when it doesn’t.
What setsGruntworkapart
An Azure landing zone is a well-architected, multi-subscription environment that
applies security and governance best practices across your org.
Gruntwork brings these foundations into your Git workflow with an OpenTofu/Terraform-first approach, battle-tested module library, and pipelines that teams already understand, making the landing zone maintainable, reviewable, and evolvable as code.
Gruntwork brings these foundations into your Git workflow with an OpenTofu/Terraform-first approach, battle-tested module library, and pipelines that teams already understand, making the landing zone maintainable, reviewable, and evolvable as code.
Faster than DIY
Cut time to production by 60%
Use patterns already proven in production to reach a live landing zone faster,
and cut ongoing maintenance costs.
Maintainability
Our code is documented, versioned, modular and best of all, Gruntwork is
constantly maintaining and improving it.
Ownership & Customization
You have full access to the code. You can customize everything, and
you're never locked in.
Ongoing cost savings
Allows for a smaller DevOps team to manage the entire environment, freeing up
valuable engineering resources.
Built for real DevOps teams
Technical documentation, expert support, and flexibility for engineers — not
buzzwords for sales and marketing.
Who Gruntwork is for
Enterprises — your existing Azure environment is inconsistent and hard to manage. You
need a well-architected foundation to improve security, reduce operational
overhead, and accelerate innovation.Mid-Market & Scaleups — you're migrating to Azure or scaling your existing footprint. You
need to standardize your environment, enforce governance, and empower your
development teams to move quickly.Startups & SMBs — you need to get to market fast, but can't compromise on security
or compliance. You don't have the time or capital to hire a large
platform team or expensive consultants.
One
common interface,
three clouds
Managing a multi-cloud infrastructure? Gruntwork provides a common interface for
provisioning and managing landing zones on Azure, AWS, and GCP. The command surface, the
config schema, and the lifecycle operations (creating an account, updating baselines,
rolling out a policy change) are identical across all three clouds.
What
differs is what gets built underneath. Each cloud's landing zone is still
constructed the idiomatic way for that provider: AWS Organizations and Control Tower on
AWS, management groups and Azure Policy on Azure, folders and organization policies on
GCP. That distinction is an implementation detail behind the interface, not something
your team has to relearn cloud by cloud.
There is no UI, so it drops straight into whatever CI/CD pipeline already runs the
rest of your infrastructure. No separate console workflow to bolt on.
