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.
