Exporting azure policy definitions

Dan 176 Reputation points
2020-06-30T19:14:22.097+00:00

Hi,

I am trying to find a script to export all existing policy definitions that are configured in our environment. I am hoping to export them into a json format that I can then place into source control for CI/CD.

Does anybody know if this exists? Or if not could anyone point me in the right direction for how to achieve this?

Thanks

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Azure Policy
An Azure service that is used to implement corporate governance and standards at scale for Azure resources.
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  1. DCtheGeek-MSFT 451 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2020-07-03T02:40:38.137+00:00

    Each of the SDK can export policy definitions. To get it into JSON from PowerShell for example, you could export them with Get-AzPolicyDefinition and then something like: 

    $object[0].Properties | ConvertTo-Json
  2. vasudeva reddy 41 Reputation points
    2020-07-30T08:16:23.797+00:00

    You can export as below using azure CLI

    Policy export definition

    $policies = az policy definition list | Out-File 'c:\xxxx\policy_definition.json'

    from the above file you can also pick type of policies you want

    $policies = 'c:\xxxx\policy_definition.json" | ConvertFrom-Json
    $final = ($policies | Where-Object {$_.policyType -eq 'Custom'}) | ConvertTo-Json
    $final | Out-File ''c:\xxxx\custompolicy_definations.json'

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