As I understand when a role is created in azure are only available in the assignable scope they are defined with. When in a new subscription I would not be able to call the role or assign it.
If I were to create a new role in the current subscription with the same name, it would throw an error as the role already exists.
Is there a way around this ?
So, I don't think you are correct.
"Custom roles are stored in an Azure AD tenant and can be shared across all subscriptions that use that tenant as the Azure AD directory for the subscription."
So you can assign that role across all subscriptions a tenant has. So effectively that means you don't have to recreate your role for every subscription your tenant has. And if subscriptions are assigned to different tenant you can create custom roles with the same name for each of those.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/role-based-access-control-custom-roles
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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 saw that it's possible in azure to move resources from one subscription in another(forex- DataFactory V2, Kv, SA,Az functions)
What happens to the roles for example- a group with various members had permissions added on to resources before moving it? Do we need to add them again since the resourceID changes?
You need to assign the roles again, if you move the resource to another subscription, the roles added in Access control (IAM) will not be existing anymore.
Do a test for you:
I'm trying to remove the permission to the user on my azure tenant to create a new subscription.
The only way a find is the but the GlobalReader role in active directory when I create the user.
But with this method, the user can see the active directory same I block it with users' permission.
I also try to create a rbac in my tenant root in my management group. But when I but a reader role the user can create a new subscription again.
Azure RBAC just for control Azure subscription resource access here, it will not work for Azure subscription creation.
For creating Azure subscriptions ,based on this official doc, only users who have billing roles:
Invoice section owner , Invoice section contributor , Azure
subscription creator
Will be able to create Azure subscriptions.
Billing roles belongs to your billing account . This doc describes the relationship with billing account with your subscriptions well.
Hope it helps .
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