Sovereign landing zone

Sovereign landing zone now uses the same platform as Azure landing zone. Use these labs to deploy a set of sovereign guardrails for your Azure environment and learn how to add country or industry packs.

Introduction

Sovereign landing zone (SLZ) now builds on the same platform as Azure landing zone (ALZ). Microsoft has transposed the sovereign guardrails to use ALZ library constructs, ensuring consistency with the core platform while maintaining sovereignty controls.

The underlying ALZ platform leverages Azure Verified Modules (AVM) for infrastructure and the ALZ Terraform provider for policy management. This modular approach means you can layer sovereign requirements alongside the Microsoft-maintained baseline without forking the codebase.

These labs focus on deploying sovereign guardrails and understanding how to extend them with country or industry-specific packs. The ALZ labs provide deeper context on the platform architecture and customization patterns that are equally relevant when working with SLZ.

Content

ALZ Accelerator

Learn how to use the Azure landing zone Accelerator to get to a GitHub CI/CD configuration recommended by Microsoft.

Deploy Sovereign landing zone

Follow this guide to deploy a Sovereign landing zone using Azure Verified Modules

Libraries

Deep dive into Azure landing zone library format. Run through its various assets and constructs. See how you can create your own libraries and how the alz provider and metadata files can be used to achieve customisation and extensibility.

Reference Library Configs

A guide to common library patterns. Use this as a quick reference if you're familiar with the content above and know what you are doing with Landing Zone libraries and the alz provider.

Prerequisites

Before starting, you should be familiar with:

Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Platform Landing Zones (PLZ)
Azure Policy and governance concepts
Basic understanding of sovereign cloud requirements

This foundation is essential for implementing and customizing Sovereign landing zone effectively.