Azure OpenAI Gateway Setup: A Governed Proxy in Front of Your Deployments
Azure OpenAI addresses models by deployment name on a resource-specific host, authenticates with either an api-key header or a Microsoft Entra ID token, and carries an api-version query parameter on every call. This guide walks the setup for a governed gateway in front of those deployments: terminate the connection, validate the Entra ID token, bind a natural-person identity, apply per-deployment policy, constrain egress to the Azure host, and commit an audit record for each decision.