I know how to create service principal for app registration. However, what is "Azure Service principal account" for read-only Azure access?
The requirement is to execute API or make API call from a framework or run the command for Azure Infra and Service validation.
The additional details:
account with id and secret key?
Account with IAM privilege to read config data from Azure services?
Access to cloud providers API for config validation?
Is there any stpes to do this? It will be really helpful if the above details can be done from Azure portal.
On Work around To create the azure service principal for read only access You can try with using the Azure CLI
. The Reader role is more restrictive, with read-only access. For more information on Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and roles, see this document RBAC: Built-in roles.
When restricting a service principal's permissions, the Contributor role should be removed.
This example adds the Reader role and removes the Contributor role:
az role assignment create --assignee APP_ID --role Reader
az role assignment delete --assignee APP_ID --role Contributor
Note: If your account doesn't have permission to assign a role, you see an error message that your account does not have authorization to perform action 'Microsoft.Authorization/roleAssignments/write'. Contact your Azure Active Directory admin to manage roles.
Microsoft recommends to use the Contributor role at minimum for a service principal. This role has full permissions to read and write to an Azure account.
For more information refer this Microsoft doc :
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I am new to Azure Functions and I want to create a queue trigger Function to consume the items in specific queue. But when I create queue trigger function in vscode, it keeps show that I lack some permissions.
The client 'live.com#***#gmail.com' with object id '***' does not have authorization to perform action 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/listKeys/action' over scope '/subscriptions/**/resourceGroups/***/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/***' or the scope is invalid. If access was recently granted, please refresh your credentials.
The permissions I am now obtaining for this queue are as follows:
The permissions I am now obtaining for the storage account are as follows:
I am confused that which kind of permissions I need to create a queue triggered function to consume items in specific queue?
Thank you!
When creating a function from VS Code using the Azure SDK, it will try to get the access key of the storage: by default this how you can authenticate to the storage. The error you're receiving is saying that you don't have permission to list the storage access keys.
From this documentation, these are the roles that has the Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/listkeys/action RBAC action:
The Reader and Data Access role
The Storage Account Contributor role
The Azure Resource Manager Contributor role
The Azure Resource Manager Owner role
Azure AD roles and Azure roles are the 2 different. You have to assign the Azure roles to the applications you're working.
It means, storage contributor role on the storage account application that in turn refers you have to grant the access to the service principal which is running your application to the storage contributor role on the storage account.
Yes! As Thomas said that the permissions required to the storage account access keys along with Storage Contributor role were Reader and Data Access, ARM Contributor and ARM Owner role.
I believe any one role from the above is required, depends on the level of access you required.
Refer to Azure storage account access keys for more information.
I currently create a service principal using the Azure CLI:
az ad sp create-for-rbac --name foo --role Contributor
I need the service principal to have enough permissions to create/modify/delete various Azure AD resources including Applications, other Service Principals and Service Principal Passwords. When I use the above service principal to create other service principals, I currently get 403 Forbidden errors.
I have also tried using the 'Owner' and 'User Access Administrator' roles but these still give me a 403 error. What do I need to add to the above Azure CLI command or what additional role assignments do I need to add?
I'd like to use the service principal in a Pulumi program with their Azure AD provider (based on Terraform's Azure AD provider). See:
https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-azuread/issues/246
In order for a service principal to be able to manage applications it requires API permissions. There is no such thing as a scope, because the API permissions are against the Azure AD API. Scopes are only applicable when it is related to the Resource Manager API. These are not the same thing.
When you go to application registrations in Azure AD, you can find the application, this is also where you will be able to assign the API permissions and grant consent.
You will do this either on the Azure Active Directory Graph, or on the Microsoft Graph. In my experience only the permissions assigned with the Azure Active Directory Graph worked.
Application.ReadWrite.All
Application
Read and write all applications
Application.ReadWrite.OwnedBy
Application
Manage apps that this app creates or owns
You will find these two application permissions that you could use. The first you can use manage all applications.
The az cli command you are using is to create a role assignment. This is RBAC on the subscription, it has nothing to do with Azure AD aside from the service principal being an AAD resource.
You need to add the scope of this service principal and also change the Azure role of this Service Principal to 'User Access Administrator' to enable you to modify resources in Azure AD. Also, 'User Access Administrator' role will give the service principal the required permissions for that Azure role to assign RBAC permissions. Please refer the below command for more details: -
az ad sp create-for-rbac --name foo --role User Access Administrator --scopes /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroup1}
Also, ensure that the user ID through which you are creating this service principal and assigning the role to it has permissions to register and create applications in Azure AD. If not, then please assign that ID 'Application Administrator' Azure AD role or you should be allowed to create and register applications by an administrator even though being a 'User'.
You need to give your service principal "App admin" permissions. This allows you to create application registrations and also set their credentials. And it does not give it rights to do anything else such as manage users and groups. If your intent is to include those, you need to add additional roles to the service principal.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/roles/permissions-reference#application-administrator
I need to create a service connection in Azure DevOps for service type "Azure Resource Manager".
When I am trying "Service principal (automatic)", I am able to do with proper permission. But when I am trying "Service principal (manual)", it needs service principle key. May I know how to create it from Azure Portal?
Yes, as mentioned by #juunas, the service principle key is also named client secret, you can create it in your App Registration -> Certificates & secrets in the portal, follow this link.
For the Forbidden error, it means your service principal does not have the correct RBAC role in your subscription, just navigate to your subscription in the portal -> add an RBAC role e.g. Contributor for your service principal like below, details here.
I'm trying to create subscriptions through an Azure DevOps pipeline on a hosted agent running as a service principal and am receiving the error:
New-AzSubscriptionAlias: /home/vsts/work/1/s/Azure.Automation/Subscriptions/Create-AzureSubscription.ps1:190
Line |
190 | $subscription = New-AzSubscriptionAlias `
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Operation returned an invalid status code 'Unauthorized'
How do I grant the service principal the required access?
As it is written here in Programmatically create Azure subscriptions with the latest APIs
You must have an Owner role on an Enrollment Account to create a subscription. There are two ways to get the role:
The Enterprise Administrator of your enrollment can make you an Account Owner (sign in required) which makes you an Owner of the Enrollment Account.
An existing Owner of the Enrollment Account can grant you access. Similarly, to use a service principal to create an EA subscription, you must grant that service principal the ability to create subscriptions.
If you need to use a service principal to create a subscription, then you must grant the service principal the Azure RBAC owner role.
You can use the New-AzRoleAssignment command to assign the owner role to your service principal.
To specify a user, use SignInName or Azure AD ObjectId parameters.
To specify a security group, use Azure AD ObjectId parameter. And to specify an Azure AD application, use ApplicationId or ObjectId parameters. The role that is being assigned must be specified using the RoleDefinitionName parameter.
You need to use AzureRmRoleAssignment cmdlet to assign that service principal an Owner role.
We tracked it down to two missing permissions required by the underlying New-AzureRmRoleAssignment cmdlet that is called by the task -
The Service Principal (SPN) used by Azure DevOps to connect to your
Azure subscription requires the Owner role
The same SPN also requires Read directory data permissions to your
Azure AD
There is also a 3rd-party Azure Role Based Access Control task you could use in your azure devops pipeline.
More step by step tutorial, please refer this blog-- Service Principal considerations when using Azure DevOps to manage RBAC on Azure Resource Groups
I am trying to use Microsoft.Azure.Management.Logic.LogicManagementClient to programmatically create a Logic App workflow in Azure. Authentication has already worked, but when I call logicManagementClient.Workflows.CreateOrUpdateAsync(), I am getting a CloudException saying that the client does not have authorization to perform action 'Microsoft.Logic/workflows/write'.
How can I give the app the required permissions?
I have already given it (in the Azure Portal) all permissions for Azure AD and Microsoft Graph. But when I try to add permissions for Windows Azure Service Management API (which I assume is the relevant API here), it says "No application permissions available":
You need to give your app at least Contributor access to the resource group via the Access Control (IAM) tab.
To manage Azure resources through the ARM API, you always need a role via RBAC.
I did this via PowerShell. I assigned the Contributor role to my App Registration. Here are the commands.
az login
az account set --subscription "YOURSUBSCRIPTIONNAME"
NOTE: Had to create Resource Group in Portal, Use the Application (client) ID of the App Registration Client
New-AzRoleAssignment -RoleDefinitionName Contributor -ServicePrincipalName Application(client)ID -ResourceGroupName YOURRESOURCEGROUPNAME