I would like to give members of a specific role the ability to create resource groups. Can this be achieved without giving users the co-owner role at the subscription level?
You can grant them contributor rights on the specific Azure subscription, they don't have to be co-owner. This is the least-privilege built-in role available that allows you to create resource groups.
However, you could also create a custom role with only one action:
Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourceGroups/write
Read more here: Custom roles for Azure resources
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Trying to figure out if it is possible to have a custom IAM role where it has contributor to the resources but not the ability to create resources. We need a solution besides automating the IAM roles on a resource, I'd rather just give that role on the resource group and not let the developers be able to create new resources. Maybe I do it with Azure Policy but a role would be better since it's easier to automate.
According to Documentation it says,
By default we use the "Contributor" role that is included into Azure. All subscription resources are accessible to users with the Contributor role.
If you wish to limit the Controller access permissions, you can do so by creating a custom role with a set of permissions required by the Controller
Thanks #JohnC according to SO-thread it says,
Azure supports custom RBAC roles, you can create a custom role with the Microsoft.Resources resource provider operation.
When you are creating the custom role check whether the below azure permission is not included in that custom role as this permission gives the user the right to create a resource group.
If this permission is not included in the custom role then that user will not be able to create a resource group, hence any azure resource will not be deployed.
Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourceGroups/write
References:
Create or update Azure custom roles using the Azure portal - Azure RBAC | Microsoft Docs
While creating access package or group, How can I force uses to get access (for any resources) via PIM in Azure?
While creating the group there is a option called "Azure AD roles can
be assigned to the group". What is this all about? If I say "Yes", its
showing up the "Roles".
I'm bit confused about the additional settings. Is this the setting to do this?
I don't know about access packages or access groups. But for my PIM setup I have Azure AD groups where users are added. And once they get access to the group they become eligible for requesting roles through PIM.
I have then a role in PIM, I make it eligible, and assign it to the group.
Users can open PIM, go to My Roles, and then activate the role.
Activating the role gives them permissions for one hour to access resources in a resource group. (This is all depending on what settings you put on the role in PIM). Outside of PIM they have no permissions whatsoever, so if they need access to resources they must request it via PIM.
PIM
Azure Resource
Change the default filter on Resource Type from Subscription to Resource Group or Resource if you want to assign permissions on smaller scopes
Do the things.
I have a client that can only give me full access to one or two resource groups.
I need to deliver some prescripted terraform resources that contain the need for a service principal.
Can you lock an SP to a resource group? The subscription itself is a production subscription so they want to know if you can tie down using role base access just to that group.
Or should I be create a MI account?
Can you lock an SP to a resource group?
You most certainly can. Azure Role-based access control is very granular and you can apply access control at any level (management group, subscription, resource group or even at individual resource).
Please see this for more details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/role-assignments-steps.
I have contributor access to a subscription. But i am not able to create Azure Policy and assign it to a particular resource group under the subscription. What is the role i needed to be assigned to if i need to create an Azure Policy and apply it to a subscription or a management group level.
According to my research, many Built-in roles grant permission to Azure Policy resources. The Resource Policy Contributor role includes most Azure Policy operations. Owner has full rights. Both Contributor and Reader can use all read Azure Policy operations, but Contributor can also trigger remediation. For more details, please refer to the document
According to your need, you can try to use Resource Policy Contributor role
Besides, you also can try to create custom role to meet your needs. Azure Policy has several permissions in two Resource Providers : Microsoft.Authorization and Microsoft.PolicyInsights
You will require "Owner" role to create Policy Definitions and Policy Assignments.
Please check this documentation which describes the Owner and Contributor roles and what are the Actions and NotActions for these roles.
I would like to create a Azure custom role which restricts a user to add/change/delete the policies that are attached to a resource group. Something like the owner role but without the right to manage the policies that are attached to the resource group.
I had a look at all the Actions/NotActions at [1] but did not find any that seems to match.
Does anyone know which action I have to restrict?
these operations are:
Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/write
Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/delete