Export azure policies

Question

HI Team,

I have a requirement to export all Azure policy definitions and policy assignments to a json file, later we want to automate all these from CI/CD pipelines.

Can you please help me on how to achieve this

Thanks
Vasudeva Reddy

Answer 1

The SDK for Azure Policy supports this action.

• Azure CLI
  • az policy definition show
  • az policy set-definition show
  • az policy assignment show
• Azure PowerShell
  • Get-AzPolicyDefinition
  • Get-AzPolicySetDefinition
  • Get-AzPolicyAssignment

There are SDK for other languages also, such as REST API, .NET, JavaScript, and Python.

All of the Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell operations and cmdlets can be run with no parameters to get all available objects (built-ins and custom for definitions) that the authenticated user has access to without any parameters.

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Then you can loop through the results and convert them to JSON files:

This approach also means you could filter the resulting definitions if you didn't want a specific category or something along those lines: