Usage

Use Azure Quick Review — to analyze Azure resources and identify whether they comply with Azure’s best practices and recommendations.

Authentication

Azure Quick Review (azqr) supports the following authentication methods:

Service Principal. You’ll need to set the following environment variables:
- AZURE_CLIENT_ID
- AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET
- AZURE_TENANT_ID
Azure Managed Identity
Azure CLI (Using this type of authentication will make scans run slower)

Authorization

Azure Quick Review (azqr) requires the following permissions:

Subscription Reader

Running the Scan

To scan all resource groups in all subscription run:

./azqr scan

To scan all resource groups in a specific subscription run:

./azqr scan -s <subscription_id>

To scan a specific resource group in a specific subscription run:

./azqr scan -s <subscription_id> -g <resource_group_name>

For information on available commands and help run:

./azqr -h

Filtering Recommendations and more

You can configure Azure Quick Review to include or exclude specific subscriptions or resource groups and also exclude services or recommendations. To do so, create a yaml file with the following format:

azqr:
  include:
    subscriptions:
      - <subscription_id> # format: <subscription_id>
    resourceGroups:
      - <resource_group_resource_id> # format: /subscriptions/<subscription_id>/resourceGroups/<resource_group_name>
  exclude:
    subscriptions:
      - <subscription_id> # format: <subscription_id>
    resourceGroups:
      - <resource_group_resource_id> # format: /subscriptions/<subscription_id>/resourceGroups/<resource_group_name>
    services:
      - <service_resource_id> # format: /subscriptions/<subscription_id>/resourceGroups/<resource_group_name>/providers/<service_provider>/<service_name>
    recommendations:
      - <recommendation_id> # format: <recommendation_id>

Then run the scan with the --filters flag:

./azqr scan --filters <path_to_yaml_file>

Check the rules to get the recommendation ids.