Automating Microsoft Sentinel Deployment with GitHub Actions

Deploying Microsoft Sentinel resources manually can be time-consuming and error-prone. By leveraging GitHub Actions and Infrastructure as Code principles, we can automate the deployment of Sentinel solutions, analytical rules, and workbooks with a single push to our repository.

This guide walks through setting up automated Sentinel deployment using a GitHub Action workflow that connects to Azure via federated authentication.

This could be useful if you just want to try Microsoft Sentinel, without the requirement of many many clicks through the platform.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, you'll need:

• An Azure subscription with Microsoft Sentinel enabled
• A GitHub repository for your Sentinel-as-Code project fork
• Administrative access to create Entra ID app registrations