The Governed AKS Migration Stack: 6 Control Layers and the Tools That Cover Each One

A governed enterprise migration to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is presented as requiring six coordinated control layers established before production workloads move: infrastructure provisioning through Terraform or Bicep, admission policy through Azure Policy for AKS, Kyverno, or OPA Gatekeeper, GitOps delivery using Flux v2 or Argo CD, tested backup and recovery with Velero or Azure Backup for AKS, Microsoft Entra ID and Kubernetes RBAC for access control, and a developer self-service layer for environment lifecycle and approvals. Azure Policy for AKS is recommended as the corporate baseline because it integrates with Azure compliance dashboards and management-group policies, while Kyverno is positioned for YAML-based mutation, resource generation, and image-signature checks, and direct Gatekeeper use is suggested mainly for organizations already using Rego. The proposed audit evidence includes reviewed pull requests, commit hashes, GitOps reconciliation records, retained Azure audit logs, access mappings, and timed restore drills, with direct production changes via kubectl discouraged. The suggested rollout spans roughly three to six months, beginning with landing zones and policies in Audit mode, followed by delivery and identity controls, restore testing, self-service capabilities, and finally Deny-mode enforcement and wider onboarding. The text describes Qovery as an optional bring-your-own-cloud developer platform that adds self-service deployments, preview environments, environment-level RBAC, and nonproduction cost controls, while explicitly not replacing cluster policy, GitOps, security, or backup tools.

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