# Azure Landing zones

> The term landing zone refers to an environment that's been provisioned and prepared to host workloads in a cloud environment like Azure.

<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/considerations/basic-considerations>

* Azure Landing Zones are part of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). Landing Zones sets best practices for automatically provision well-architected and secure Azure subscriptions to be consumed by the users in the organization.&#x20;
* Landing Zones consists of multiple design areas, like identity management, network topology and connectivity, and resource organization
* They can be multi-layered and they can be implemented on different scale, for example like setting up just the basics or going full enterprise-scale

## Landing zones with Terraform

[Azure Cloud Adoption Framework landing zones for Terraform](https://github.com/Azure/caf-terraform-landingzones) is a project which presents an idea how to build Landing Zones with Terraform. There are also some ready-made modules, but as for now these did not look very mature yet.

## Resources

* What is an Azure landing zone? - <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/landing-zone/>
* Azure Cloud Adoption Framework landing zones for Terraform - <https://github.com/Azure/caf-terraform-landingzones>


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