Azure AKS Migration Tools: The 5-Layer Stack That Keeps Compliance On From Day One

A governed enterprise migration to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is presented as a five-layer model that should be implemented before production workloads move: Azure Landing Zones with Terraform or Bicep for infrastructure governance, Azure Policy for AKS, Kyverno, or Gatekeeper for admission controls, Flux or Argo CD for GitOps-based delivery, Azure Backup for AKS or Velero for recovery, and an internal developer platform for controlled self-service deployments. The recommended approach assigns policies in audit mode at management-group scope before gradually enforcing deny rules, uses Microsoft Entra ID with Azure RBAC and disabled local accounts to support least privilege, and generates audit evidence through policy reports, reviewed Git commits, Defender for Containers findings, RBAC records, and tested restore logs. The discussion distinguishes cluster and persistent-volume backups from managed database backup requirements, notes that policy engines only inspect resources reaching the Kubernetes API server, and argues that a developer platform can reduce untracked kubectl changes without replacing infrastructure, policy, GitOps, or backup tools. Qovery is positioned as a BYOC developer platform that operates workloads within a customer’s Azure subscription and can standardize templated deployments and environment-level access controls while preserving the underlying Azure governance model.

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