Problem
I have an azure pipeline YAML file. It is able to run through a service connection which accesses a service principal with all the proper authority, etc.
But I am now trying to clean up the code; we have multiple service principals running on multiple subscriptions and resource groups. They need to create storage accounts, which need to be unique.
So I am trying to create a storage account built partially from the associated subscription and resource group of the service principal creating the storage account.
Example Solution
For the subscription, it is fairly easy. I can do something like this, from within a PowerShell script called inside the pipeline:
$subscriptionId = $(az account show --query 'id' -o tsv)
Write-Output "##vso[task.setvariable variable=AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID;isoutput=true;issecret=true]$subscriptionId"
Now I have the variables $subscription ID and AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID set, and can access subscription information within the pipeline itself.
Question
But how can I do something similar with resource groups?
There is no equivalent to az account show with resource groups, without knowing the resource group name itself. (Eg, I have to type az group show -name <RG-name>, but it is precisely the name that I am trying to get.)
Again, to be clear, I am running inside of a particular resource group and subscription, it is those that are associated with the service connection. Now I simply want that information available to the pipeline.
I'm not sure if I completely understand what you are trying to accomplish. But I suspect that the options below might help.
Get role assignments
If you created separate service connections for each individual resource group you can simply check the role assignments for the SPN and determine the scope of the service connection.
If you, for example, use the Azure PowerShell task, you have configured it with a Service Connection. So when the task starts, it has the context of the service principal. You can then do Get-AzRoleAssignment which should output the Resource Groups to which its authorised. Again, this is only useful if you use a service connection per RG, as you otherwise get results for multiple RGs. (Or for subscriptions and Management groups, if you also assigned a role to those scropes)
Use the Azure DevOps API
You can use the Get Service Endpoint request of the Azure DevOps API to get the service connections. The JSON output will contain information regarding the scope of the service connection.
If you find working with the API directly a bit hard, you can try the PSDevOps PowerShell module to interact with the Azure DevOps API. It has the Get-ADOServiceEndpoint command that allows you to get the available service endpoints.
I have an Azure Event Grid subscription, which is returned when I run the following code:-
az eventgrid event-subscription list --resource-group [my resource group]
This returns a list of the event subscriptions that I have.
The id is displayed as:
/subscriptions/[subscription ID]/resourceGroups/[my resource group]/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/[my storage account]/providers/Microsoft.EventGrid/eventSubscriptions/[my sub]
And topic as :-
/subscriptions/[susbcription id]/resourceGroups/[my resource group]/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/[my storage account]
However, when I try and use show or update on the event subscription listed, I receive the following error:-
Invalid event subscription request: Supplied URL is invalid. It cannot be null or empty and should be a proper HTTPS URL like https://www.example.com.
I am passing in the topic as listed above into the --source-resource-id parameter as follows:-
az eventgrid event-subscription show --source-resource-id "/subscriptions/[subscription id]/resourceGroups/[my resource group]/providers/microsoft.storage/storageaccounts/[my storage account]" --name [my event subscription]
This appears to follow the syntax in the help file, and the documentation:-
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/eventgrid/event-subscription?view=azure-cli-latest#az-eventgrid-event-subscription-show
Any idea what I might be doing wrong?
As discussed below, when running list with the source-resource-id, an empty object is returned:-
If running it without the source-resource-id, and a jmespath query, it returns an object:-
When running with the cloud cli, get this:-
Trying to deploy an Event Grid instance to harvest ARM events on my subscriptions. This instance is deployed on the subscription blade:
However, I get this error message when trying to deploy the event grid instance on the subscription.
I guess this is the resource group that has to be created in the background as the Event Grid instance cannot reside in a resource group to access events at the subscription level.
Cannot find any documentation on this error. Please advise.
I'm trying to setup Azure CLI. The first step is to create a storage for account files. I'm using my Developer Program Benefit subscription.
After I click "Create storage" I get an error:
Storage creation failed
Error:409
{"error":{"code":"MissingSubscriptionRegistration","message":"The subscription is not registered to use namespace 'Microsoft.Storage'. See https://aka.ms/rps-not-found for how to register subscriptions."}}
Can't create a storage account. Please try again.
How to resolve this issue?
The reason you're getting this error is because Microsoft.Storage resource provider which manages Storage Account related resources and activities is not registered with your Azure Subscription.
To fix this, please run the following command:
azure provider register --namespace "Microsoft.Storage" --subscription "<your subscription name or id>"
To get the subscription name/id, please run the following command:
azure account list
For more details on why you're getting this error, please see this: The subscription is not registered to use namespace 'Microsoft.DataFactory error
If you prefer GUI, then you can do it on the Azure portal too:
On the left pane click More services and then select Subscriptions
Select the subscription, in our case Developer Program Benefit
In the Settings area click Resource providers
Find Microsoft.Storage and click Register
This same error with detailed solutions are provided in this post:
How to fix Azure Cloud Shell error "MissingSubscriptionRegistration - The subscription is not registered to use namespace 'Microsoft.Storage'"
I was trying to invoke data factory pipeline from azure function programmatically. Its throwing following error.
link:
http://eatcodelive.com/2016/02/24/starting-an-azure-data-factory-pipeline-from-c-net/
AuthorizationFailed: The client 'XXXX-XXXXX-XXXX' with object id 'XXX829e05'XXXX-XXXXX' does not have authorization to perform action
'Microsoft.DataFactory/datafactories/datapipelines/read' over scope
'/subscriptions/XXXXXX-4bf5-84c6-3a352XXXXXX/resourcegroups/fffsrg/providers/Microsoft.DataFactory/datafactories/ADFTestFFFS/datapipelines/ADFTutorialPipelineCustom'.
tried to search similar issues, but none of the search result gave me solution to my problem, Can you please guide us what could be the issue?
Objective is to, run data factory pipeline whenever file being added to blob. so to achieve the result we are trying to invoke data factory pipeline from azure function using blob trigger.
Step 1: login to your azure portal
Step 2: find Subscriptions in left side menu bar and click.
step 3: Click on Access Control IAM and then click on Add.
Step 4: In Add Permission window, select contributor for role. In select input box, type the app name you created in Azure AD (Created in Azure Active Directory)and select it. In my case I created Azure Resource Management.
Step 5:After you have given successful permission, click on Refresh in your subscription window and you will see your app showing in the list. See below example.
SEE Common problem when using Azure resource groups & RBAC
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azure4fun/2016/10/20/common-problem-when-using-azure-resource-groups-rbac/
This issue is more likely to happen in newer subscriptions and usually happens if a certain resource type has never been created before in that subscription.
Subscription admins often fix this issue by granting resource group owners contributor rights on the subscription level which contradicts with their strategy of isolating access down to the level of resource group level not the subscription level.
Root cause
Some admins say, that some resources require access to the subscription level to be able to create these resources and that ‘owner’ rights on a resource group level is not sufficient. That is not true.
Let’s take a step back to understand how this all works first.
To provision any resources in azure (using the resource manager model) you need to have a resource provider that supports the creation of that resource. For example, if you will provision a virtual machine, you need to have a ‘Microsoft.Compute’ resource provider available in the subscription first before you can do that.
Resource providers are registered on the level of the subscription only.
Luckily, the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is intelligent enough to figure that out for you. When a new Azure resource gets provisioned, if the resource provider required for that resource type is not registered in the subscription yet, ARM will attempt to register it for you. That action (resource provider registration) requires access to the subscription level.
By default, any new azure subscription will be pre-registered with a list of commonly used resource providers. The resource provider for IoTHub for instance, is not one of them.
When a user is granted owner rights only on a specific resource group, if that user tries to provision a resource that requires registering a resource provider for the first time, that operation will fail. That is what happened in our case above when trying to provision IoThub.
So the bottom line is, we DO NOT need to grant access permissions to the subscription level for users to be able to create resources like HDInsight, IotHub and SQLDW …etc within their resource groups that they have owner rights on, as long as the resource providers for these resources is already registered.
You get the error that you are not authorized to perform action 'Microsoft.DataFactory/datafactories/datapipelines/read' over scope of pipeline because you don't have the relevant permissions on the datafactory.
You either need to have "Contributor" /"DataFactoryContributor" permissions to create & manage data factory resources or child resources. More details of the azure RBAC roles in the following link:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/role-based-access-built-in-roles
Since the customer is trying to use the ADF client from inside Azure Function, the recommendation is to use AAD application and service principal for authentication of ADF client. You can find the instructions for creating AAD application and service principal here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-authenticate-service-principal
Please follow the instructions on how to create the Active Directory application, service principal, and then assign it to the Data Factory Contributor role in the following link and the code sample for using service principal with ADF client.
We recently had this issue with the same message and found that it was caused by the user being logged in with a different subscription (we have 2). Using az login --subscription resolved the problem for us.
For anyone else running into a similar issue with the same error message - After "az login" I was recieving the same error when attempting to create a resource group as Owner, I solved this with:
az account set --subscription "Azure Subscription 1"
Basically it stems from the subscription not being set, you can find the details here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/manage-azure-subscriptions-azure-cli#get-the-active-subscription
Solution:
Step 1: Register an app in Azure Active directory.
Step 2: Assign 'Data Factory Contributor' role to the same app. we can achieve this by using power shell.
The below code works for me. Please try out in power shell after logged in with Azure credential.
Implementation:
Step 1: $azureAdApplication = New-AzureRmADApplication -DisplayName <AppName> -HomePage <URL> -IdentifierUris <URL with domain> -Password <Password>
Step 2: New-AzureRmRoleAssignment -RoleDefinitionName "Data Factory Contributor" -ServicePrincipalName $azureAdApplication.ApplicationId
Follow this post : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-create-service-principal-portal
In this post , Role is given as "Reader" which should be "Owner" instead otherwise it would give permission error on deployment.
I solved by following this post:
https://www.nwcadence.com/blog/resolving-authorizationfailed-2016
with the command in PowerShell:
Get-AzureRmResourceProvider -ListAvailable | Select-Object ProviderNamespace | Foreach-Object { Register-AzureRmResourceProvider -ProviderName $_.ProviderNamespace}
I solved by finding the Enterprise Application > Object ID.
(it is weird that it does not use App Reg > Application Id)
https://jeanpaul.cloud/2020/02/03/azure-data-factory-pipeline-execution-error/