Building a development environment out of your production deployment

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Many born‑in‑the‑cloud shops deploy straight to production; this shows how to convert an Azure subscription into separate dev and prod subscriptions by exporting ARM templates, automating rebuilds and using your disaster‑recovery pipeline to spin up a JIT test replica. Concrete tools and checks: Azure Security Center scans, Azure Backup/replication, Privileged Identity Management and RBAC to eliminate a single root account. Shocking reminders: 97% misconfigurations prediction and a 23% restore failure rate underline why off‑site backups and recovery drills are mandatory.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:11Building a development environment out of your production deployment
3. 29:40The cloud somewhat sidesteps those models by providing the illusion of limitless resources
4. 46:02Use Azure Privileged Identity Management to require 2FA to access admin roles for a minimal amount of time

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