Arc Hybrid Lab

AZURE ARC · HYBRID GOVERNANCE

Hybrid governance as code — at $0/month.

Onboard 2 on-premises Ubuntu servers to Azure Arc, then layer on patching, compliance, tagging and RBAC with free Azure services — every layer reproduced from infrastructure as code.

Last refreshed: Sep 16, 2026, 4:14 PM

Arc machines

2

Connected

Azure Policies

3

assigned

Monthly cost

$0

$2 budget alert

Lynis index

71

hardening score

Arc machines

Live inventory from the snapshot.

Name Status OS Tags
vm-01 Connected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS env=lab
vm-02 Connected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Milestones

M0–M7 complete · M8 this site · M9 next.

M0

Local environment

2 × Ubuntu 22.04 arm64 (Multipass)

done
M1

Arc onboarding

azcmagent → Azure Arc

done
M2

Terraform IaC

RG + tags + workspace

done
M3

Azure Policy

3 policies (tag / region / AMA)

done
M4

Update Manager

patch assessment + schedule

done
M5

Log Analytics

AMA + scoped DCR

done
M6

CI/CD

GitHub Actions (OIDC)

done
M7

Security audit

Lynis + Ansible CIS

done
M8

Presentation site

this site (Azure Static Web Apps)

in progress
M9

Hybrid networking

Tailscale + Azure VM

todo