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Azure Management Groups and Custom RBAC Roles

November 10, 2019 by Elan Shudnow 2 Comments

Update (10/14/2021) – Custom RBAC Roles in Azure Management Groups is in Public Preview. Link here . It is advised to follow official guidance and use the below as expirimental only.

Azure Management Groups are containers that help you manage access, policy, and compliance across multiple subscriptions. Azure Management Groups provide a level of scope above subscriptions. You organize subscriptions into containers called “Management Groups” and apply your governance conditions to the management groups. All subscriptions within a management group automatically inherit the conditions applied to the Management Group. 

Role Based Access Control (RBAC) helps you manage who has access to Azure resources, what they can do with those resources, and what areas they have access to. RBAC is an authorization system that provides fine-grained access management of Azure resources. A list of built-in RBAC roles are available here .

When built-in RBAC roles do not meet your needs, custom RBAC roles can be created which allows you to define what permissions a user has. These permissions can be an allow or an explicit deny.

When creating Management Groups, I have seen organizations struggle with applying Custom RBAC permissions to a Management Group and how it applies to the subscriptions within that Management Group.

Let’s take a look at creating a Management Group, creating a Custom RBAC role, assigning the Custom RBAC role to a Management Group, and how it applies to Azure Subscription(s) within that Management Group.

This article assumes you already have knowledge around the design of Management Groups and Custom RBAC roles. If you need more information on Management Group design, click here . If you need more information on Custom RBAC roles, click here . Sam Cogan also has a very good article on Custom RBAC Roles which you can view here .

Management Group Creation

In order to create our Management Group, go to All Services > search for management groups > click Management Groups.

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The Tenant Root Group is the default Management Group that exists with all subscriptions assigned to the Tenant Root Group. Our goal is to create a new Management Group and move the Subscription we are targeting under the new Management Group. In our case, the subscription we are targeting is the Microsoft Partner Network subscription.

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Create a new Management Group. We will call our new Management Group “ITDev” which means that any subscriptions that we have decided in design that we have a governance requirement that we require certain Azure Policy and certain RBAC controls to flow down from the ITDev Management Group to all subscriptions that will be within the ITDev Management Group without having to assign these policies and RBAC controls to every subscription manually.

To create the new Management Group, click “Add management group.”

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Give the new Management Group an ID and a Display Name. We will use ITDev for both. Click Save.

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We now see the ITDev Management Group.

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Let’s move our Subscription to fall under the ITDev Management Group. In the Subscription, click the … and choose Move.

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Choose the ITDev Management Group and click Save.

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We no longer see our subscription under the Tenant Root Group.

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However, if we go into the ITDev Management Group, we see our subscription there.

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Custom RBAC Role Creation

Let’s use the Custom role example that I linked to earlier in the article. Again, that link is available here . The only thing I’m changing is the name by adding the word Custom to it.

The Custom role example is as follows:

As you can see in Assignable Scopes, you can define the subscriptions you want this Custom RBAC role to be available in. In order for this to work with Management Groups, you must change the AssignableScopes to a Management Group. Because we created the ITDev Management Group with an ID of ITDev, our assignable scope would be:

Therefore, our Custom RBAC role would become:

Go ahead and save this Custom RBAC role as a .json file. We saved our file as customrbacrole.json.

Login to Azure PowerShell using instructions provided here using Connect-AzAccount. Ensure you are connected to the correct subscription using instructions provided here using Set-AzContext.

Create the new Custom RBAC Role using New-AzRoleDefinition pointing to the JSON file we saved.

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Testing Custom RBAC Role

We have a user “John Doe” that has no Directory Roles assigned.

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The “John Doe” user is also not assigned to any Azure roles.

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When this user signs into the Azure Portal, we can see John Doe does not have access to our Subscription nor any resources within the Subscription.

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Let’s go back to the Azure Portal with our Administrator account and grant this user access at the Management Group to our custom RBAC role, “Custom Virtual Machine Operator.”

In Management Groups, go to ITDev and click details.

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Click Access Control (IAM), click Add, and select Add role assignment.

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Select the Custom Role we created, search for John Doe and add him and ensure John Doe becomes a selected member. Click Save.

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If we go back to our Azure Subscription and go to Access Control (IAM), let’s again do a Check access.

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We can now see the John Doe user is in the Custom Virtual Machine Operator RBAC Custom Role that is being inherited at the Management group scope since we added this Custom RBAC Role permission to John Doe at the Management Group hierarchy level.

Now let’s try signing in again to the Azure Portal as John Doe. This may take a few minutes for the permission to propagate. Once the permission propogates, you will see John Doe now has access to the Azure Subscription as well as resources he has been granted access to.

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December 17, 2019 at 5:09 pm

How do you update your custom role when its assignable scope is only a management group? I cannot seem to figure out how to modify this via PowerShell as get-azroledefinition is associated to the context (aka subscription) your PowerShell is running as, not the management group that has the role definition.

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To modify: 1. $role = Get-AzRoleDefinition -Name “Custom Virtual Machine Operator” 2. $role.Actions.Add(“Microsoft.Insights/diagnosticSettings/*/read”) 3. Set-AzRoleDefinition -Role $role (Get-AzRoleDefinition -Name “Custom Virtual Machine Operator”).Actions

To delete: Need to add subscriptionID as an assignable scope. Then delete. 1. $role = Get-AzRoleDefinition -Name “Custom Virtual Machine Operator” 2. $role.AssignableScopes.Add(“/subscriptions/{SubscriptionID}”) 3. Get-AzRoleDefinition -Name “Custom Virtual Machine Operator” | Remove-AzRoleDefinition

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PowerShell Basics: Query Azure Role Based Access Control Assignments

The scenario: what role based access control does somebody have, azure deny assignments.

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A great way to learn PowerShell is to set up a scenario in the Azure portal, then try different PowerShell commands to see if you can get the same results. In this article, we'll use Azure Role Based Access control, as it's both visible in the Azure Portal and we have some PowerShell commands for it.

If you're taking over an existing Azure environment, or if you organization has been running Azure for a while without enforced consistency of your Role Based Access Control, you might want to explore your existing RBAC assignments at scale or query the permissions for a specific user. RBAC assignments display in the Access control (IAM) blade of Azure resources, resource groups, subscriptions. Because you can assign a role to a user (or group) on an individual resource, their roles and permissions across your Azure environment may vary, and it's time consuming to check the IAM blade of everything.

Fortunately, we can use PowerShell commands and different display formats, to get the data we want. For the purposes of learning PowerShell, you can use the Azure portal to set up RBAC for different test users (and as part of group memberships) on your resources, resource groups and subscription, so you know what results the PowerShell commands should return.

To keep things simple, I'm running these commands in Cloud Shell inside the Azure Portal.

PowerShell: Get-AzRoleAssignment

Azure RBAC is supported by a number of PowerShell commands, but for this scenario our friend is “ Get-AzRoleAssignment “.

Looking at the structure of PowerShell, because this is a “ Get ” command, it's going to query Azure for some information and return the results to us. “ AzRoleAssignment ” is the base for this command. The command also has a “ New- ” variation, for adding a new assignment, and a “ Remove- ” variation for removing a role assignment.

Note: If you see older blogs or scripts using “Get-AzureRmRoleAssignment”, that was an earlier name for this command before the Az updates. You can often replace the AzureRm bit with just Az, but not in every case as some commands have been deprecated.

If you have multiple subscriptions, Cloud Shell will default to one of them, and your commands will query that subscription and it's associated resources. You can run “ Get-AzContext ” to see which subscription is selected, and run “ Set-AzContext -SubscriptionName “My other subscription”” to change to a different one. (Note I've placed the actual name of my other subscription in it's own set of brackets because it has spaces in it).

Let's start by just running this command and getting a list of all of the RBAC assignments:

Next, let's narrow that down so we are only looking for role assignments for one particular user. The Get-AzRoleAssignment command has a range of different parameters we can add which will act as a filter. We'll use SignInName , which you can find in the user's details in Azure Active Directory , if you don't know the exact format (and replace my steve.l example name):

This gives us a long list of Steve's role assignments:

The default display for Get-AzRoleAssignment for a single user

Now I want to play with the formatting to make it a little more readable onscreen. 

I can format the output of this PowerShell command a few different ways, including as a list or as a table. The output above show sme all of the information that is returned by the query though, so I can use that to further refine the display:

I'm using the ‘pipe' character of |  (which is Shift + on my keyboard), then the short version of the “ format-list ” command, then I'm listing just the properties I want to be displayed (DisplayName, RoleDefinitionName and Scope). The pipe tells the first command to send it's output to the second command.

Get-AzRoleAssignment with the output formatted as a list

For more formatting command examples, visit Using Format Commands to Change Output View .

Hmm, that could still be a pretty long list if Steve had more role assignments. Let's try a table view instead with “ format-table ” or FT for short:

Get-AzRoleAssignment formatted as a table

That's better! So, Steve has a pretty high level of access at the top level of my subscription (Owner) plus a Log Analytics Reader role assignment which isn't needed – I can go and tidy that up. But if I run that same command for a different user, I'm seeing a different scope:

Azure RBAC at the management group level

Sonia's account is showing the scope as the SCuffSubsMG, not the subscription ID. That's because her Owner access to the current subscription is determined by a role assignment that has been added at the management group level, and as this subscription belongs to that management group, the role assignment is inherited too.

There's one more important thing we need to include – what if our user is a member of a group that has been assigned a role? Our commands so far won't include that. We need to add “ -ExpandPrincipalGroups “. 

Get-AzRoleAssignment with ExpandPrincipalGroups for group membership role assignments

Now I can see that as well as being listed as an individual with the Virtual Machine Contributor role to VM CA01, Sarah is also a member of the IT_KeyVaultAdmins group, who have Key Vault Administrator access to the KV-BNE-01 key vault.

There's one type of Azure role assignment that won't display with Get-AzRoleAssignment, and that's an Azure deny assignment . You can't manually assign someone a deny assignment – they are created and used by Azure to protect system-managed resources. Azure Blueprints and Azure managed apps are the only way that they can be created.

You can query where they are being used in your subscription, by using the Get-AzDenyAssignment command.     

Now you've learnt about the capabilities and structure of this command, go and explore with different command parameters. If you get stuck, visit List Azure role assignments using PowerShell  or  Remove Azure role assignments for more inspiration.

Get-AzRoleAssignment has the full command syntax, parameters, inputs and outputs.

And many of the basic PowerShell concepts we've explored here, like Get/Set/Remove and output formatting, are applicable to a ton of other PowerShell commands too. You're now on your way to understanding and exploring more of PowerShell, especially for scenarios where you can't easily retrieve the same information in the Azure portal.

This article was originally published by Microsoft's SQL Server Blog . You can find the original article here .

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Using the Azure CLI To Update and Manage User Permissions

The Azure CLI is a great tool for scripting updates to user permissions. In this guide, we'll walk through the basics of roles and groups and the common commands.

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If you need to make user permission updates in an automated way, the Azure CLI can be a great option. In this article, we will be outlining the two main sources of user permissions, roles and groups, and how they intersect.

With a combination of roles and groups, you can maintain granular permissions across many different projects while adhering to the principle of least privilege .

Understanding Roles with Azure RBAC

Azure roles are a flexible way to designate user permissions. With Azure RBAC (role-based access control), you can unlock access to certain resources and actions by assigning a user to a certain role, which comes with an accompanying set of permissions.

These are some examples of common built-in roles: 

  • Contributor: Can create and manage Azure resources
  • Owner: Access to all resources and can extend access to others
  • Reader: Can view only existing Azure resources
  • User Access Administrator: Can manage access to Azure resources

You can narrow access further by assigning a user with a role in relation to a specific scope (e.g. resource group, application id, etc.). If you need a unique combination of permissions and expect to have similar use cases in the future, you can also create custom roles by providing either a JSON role definition file or a PSRoleDefinition object as input.

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Assigning Roles with the Azure CLI

You will likely need to update someone’s role if they are new to your organization or have been assigned to a new project; or inversely, if they are leaving or no longer need access. Here are the steps for making these changes with the Azure CLI.

Adding a Role to a User

To assign a role to a user in Azure, you can use the “ az role assignment create ” command. You have to specify three components, the assignee, the role, and the resource groups or scope of access. In the following example, we’re assigning Reader access (role definition) to user John Smith for the scope of a certain resource group.

Removing a Role from a User

Next, to remove the role from the same user, we would use the “ az role assignment delete ” command. This command uses the exact same parameters:

These commands should enable you to make these role updates manually, or script a repeatable workflow for new employees or new projects.

Understanding Groups in Azure 

In GCP or AWS, Identify Access Management (IAM) groups are a way to extend access and authorization services/APIs to a team. Groups in Azure serve the same purpose, but Azure is slightly different in that groups are created directly using Azure’s Active Directory (AD). 

You can create a new group using the command “ az ad group create ” , and specify a display name and a mail nickname. Here’s an example:

Management of IAM groups in Azure involves the same kinds of tasks you would perform in typical user groups, whether it’s adding or deleting individual users, giving them specific levels of IAM permissions, or managing groups of users as a whole, among many others.

For example, you can assign a group with a certain role for a certain scope or resource group. To do this, you’ll first need to get the object ID for the group using this command:

The object ID will be a string of numbers in this format:

“xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx”

Now that you have the group ID, you can use the “ az role assignment create ” command to assign a role to that group:

The combination of user roles and group roles allows for organizations to have a flexible and secure solution for permissions as your company grows or projects change.

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Adding or Removing a Users to Groups

If you want to add a user to a group, you’ll need to run the “ az ad group member add ”   command. You will need to plug in values for a group parameter (either the specific group id or display name) and a member-id parameter.

Here is an example of that command:

Removing a member from a group uses the same parameters, and uses the “ az ad group member remove ” command instead:

You can also use the same parameters with the “ az ad group member check ” command to check whether the member was removed from the group.

Automate Permission Updates with Blink

Most likely, as your organization grows, changing and updating permissions and policies will take up more time. Instead of having to look up the specific command for each of these actions, you could use a low-code tool like Blink to handle tasks like this in a couple clicks.

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Management Groups and Initiatives

Step up a level using Management Groups and assigning a basic custom Deny initiative.

Introduction

Policies and initiatives are great for introducing a layer of governance onto subscriptions, and experience has shown that there is a sensible approach to take.

Create a Deny initiative for regions, names, resource provider types and SKUs

The aim of a Deny initiative is to prevent the incorrect creation of resources that would be painful to fix.

Regions is an obvious one. If deployments should only be allowed to a region or two, then use a deny policy. It is difficult to move many resource types and many require deletion and recreation.

Cost management is another reason. You can avoid the creation of expensive resource types or SKUs by constraining the options.

As you already know, the names of resource groups and resources form part of the resourceId within Azure. Therefore you cannot rename them. For resource groups you have to create a new one with the desired name and then move the resources. For resources it is an disruptive change, forcing a delete and recreate. Enforcing a naming convention with a deny policy can avoid that situation.

Using a deny initiative is very effective for these. For other types of policies then it can be overkill and cause friction. For example, if you were to enforce tagging with a deny effect in your policy definition then you would prevent users from creating certain resources types within the Azure portal. (Only some resource types support tag definitions in the create screens.)

Use the Audit effect for desired configurations and check compliancy within Azure Policy.

If you want a softer impact then use the audit policy and then you can use that to flag up those that don’t meet the policy.

Tagging is a great example for this and will be used later in the set of labs. It is good practice to have a default set of tags created for each resource (and possibly resource group). You can then slice and dice the billing using the tagging, find out who is the application owner, which resources are naturally related, or establish values which can then be used in automation around downtime, or switching on and off resources to get benefit from cloud’s utility computing models.

Using Audit means that those resources can still be deployed, and you can be nice in auto-creating tags, defaulting values etc., and then use the compliancy reporting in Azure Policy to correct non-compliant resources. In certain circumstances (e.g. where resources are deployed purely through CI/CD) then you may want to switch from Audit to Deny.

Leverage the DeployIfNotExists inbuilt initiatives

The new initiatives are perfect for ensuring that standard agents are auto-installed for both newly instantiated resources and for those that are migrated into the environment.

In this lab we will address the first area, and show how to create and then update an example Deny initiative. We’ll create it initially with constraints for geography and VM SKUs and assign it. Then we’ll create a simple custom policy for resource naming, add it to the initiative json and then update the initiative definition.

We will also start using management groups to get an understanding of where to define policies and initiatives, and where to assign them.

In later labs we will translate this deny initiative into both a subscription level ARM template and a Terraform module.

Create a Custom Policy Initiative

Set your defaults

We’ll avoid lengthy commands by defaulting the --resource-group and --location switches. We’ll also be re-using the PolicyLab resource group. )

(Personally I always configure the CLI output to jsonc using az configure , but choose whichever you prefer. You can choose from the default table or switch to the more detailed json or yaml outputs. The tsv output is usually used in scripts, combined with the JMESPATH queries.)

Create a new subdirectory called policy

Create a new file within it called deny.initiative.json

We’ll start by using a couple of standard BuiltIn policies for restricting the regions and VM SKUs.

This is a hardcoded initiative using two inbuilt policies. It is a simple array showing the definition IDs for the inbuilt policies as well as the parameter values required. The comment field will be ignored by the next command and is useful to describe the policy effect for that initiative element.

Create the initiative definition

Assign to the resource group

The --resource-group switch is shown explicitly as it is the scope at which the policy is assigned. Later we will assign it at a higher scope level once it has been tested successfully, and we will use the --scope switch instead.

List assignments

List out the policy assignments solely at the resource group:

And again, showing both those assigned at that scope and those inherited from higher in the hierarchy (i.e. any assignments at management group or subscription level):

Create resources within the PolicyLab resource group that either meet or violate the criteria in the policy definitions to test whether they will be denied deployment.

Confirm that the policy initiative is working as intended.

Working with Management Groups

Note that your ability to work through this section will depend on your role within your subscription and within the associated tenancy.

If you are Global Admin within a tenancy then you can elevate your permissions to gain access to the default Management Group, known as the Tenant Root Group. (Once the Global Admin has been elevated then they can assign individual users or group(s) the Management Group Contributor role at that scope.) If the elevation succeeds then you can now manage Management Groups. If not then you will have to continue working with the subscription and resource group levels and you are free to skip to the next section .

Elevate the Global Admin

Go into the AAD Portal , into the Azure Active Directory service and then Properties within the Manage section. Toggle the “Access management for Azure resources” to Yes.

List out your management groups

Assuming you haven’t created any new management groups then the output will be similar to this:

Note that the resourceId format deviates from the normal format as Management Groups sit outside of the individual subscriptions. One other difference is that there is a name and a displayName, so you can rename a Management Group. The name for the Tenant Root Group is the same as the tenantId.

Set tenantId and rootId

Use these commands to set a couple of variables so we can refer to them later:

The last two commands are interchangeable as they’ll set rootId to the same value.

Create new management groups

You can use either a GUID or a number for a management group’s name.

The --parent switch defaults to the Tenant Root Group. The resourceId for the Dev management group will be:

See the current policy initiative definition level

When you created the policy initiative, it was created at the default scope level, which is subscription. Run the following command:

The output should be similar to:

We then assigned the policy initiative to the resource group, which is within that subscription. You can only assign policies and initiatives which are defined either at that level or at a higher scope.

Delete the test versions of the policy initiative assignment and definition

Remove the assignment at the resource group level, and then the definition

Recreate the initiative at the Non-Prod level

The resourceId for the policy initiative definition will be very different to the previous one, as it is now based on the management group Id and the provider type:

OK, we should now be able to assign it at any level from Non-Prod downwards.

Assign the initiative at the Non-Prod level

Remember that you can only assign policies and initiatives at the same level or lower than the scope at which the definition was created.

Move your subscription under the new management group

Note that you can always move it back to the root later

The subscription will now inherit the policies within the initiative from the management groups.

Note that new subscriptions will be created within the Tenant Root Group. As soon as you move a subscription under a management group then it will inherit any assigned policies from all of the levels above.

Updating an existing policy initiative

OK, time to add custom policies to the initiative. We’ll ensure that we have a standard naming convention enforced, as any resource named incorrectly would have to be deleted and recreated.

The creation of custom policy rules is currently a little bit of a dark art at the moment. The product group is aware of this and is looking for ways to make the process simpler.

In the meantime, be familiar with the available logical operators, conditions and fields within the Azure Policy definition structure . You will also find some good examples of policies that others have defined, including the Microsoft GitHub repo for Azure Policy samples , from or from individual contributors such as Richard Green .

For naming you can use either the match conditional, which will match against standard patterns. You can use either # for a number or ? for a letter. Using like allows for the use of * wildcards.

Let’s create a simple global naming format based on the sample , allowing a simple parameter to be passed in.

Create policy/naming.global.rules.json:

And then a policy/naming.global.parameters.json

Create the policy definition at the Tenant Root Group level:

The --management-group switch is really important here. By default the command defines policies at the subscription level, i.e.:

With the --management-group switch then the policy will be defined at:

Also note the use of the --mode All switch as this policy can apply to resources that do not have a region and/or do not have tags.

Add the following to the end of the array in your deny.initiative.definition.json:

This is a simple naming convention and there is no real enforcement of the desired naming in the comment field. Check out later labs for examples of using multiple policies within initiatives to strongly control naming.

Update the initiative

The policy initiative will now be updated. And importantly, every single policy assignment using that policy initiative will also be updated. The subscription within the non-prod management group will now be subject to the new naming convention enforcement.

Note that if you have created the global naming policy at the default subscription level then you would not be able to add it to the initiative, as that is defined at a higher management group level. You would get this error message:

For this reason, our recommendation is to create the custom policies at the Tenant Root Group by default, and ensure that they are parameterised so they can be used flexibly by your initiatives.

Recommendations

This is a useful lab to get an understanding of management groups and how the various scope points work for policy definitions, for policy initiative definitions and then for your policy assignments.

It also reinforces our recommendation to create policy definitions as high as possible in the hierarchy and then use initiative definitions against management groups. This has two really key benefits:

  • The policy initiative definitions are easy to understand, and easy to update or extend
  • Updating the initiative definitions automatically feeds into the assignments

Therefore lifecycle management of your policies becomes simpler. If you then add a new subscription to that tenant then it will automatically fall under the Tenant Root Group. If you then move it under one of your existing management groups then it will automatically inherit the policy initiatives from the management group(s) above.

Looking at this from the partner perspective, I would also think of your custom policies as a shared library of subroutines. Have a standard set that you deploy at the Tenant Root Group for your customers. Later labs will have Terraform modules and example Bash scripts to get those defined programmatically. Both will exist in GitHub. There will also be an example ARM subscription template, but as the name suggests these will only work at the subscription scope, and can not at this point define the custom policies at a management group level.

You can then make your initiatives configurable by customer. Allow different resources types, different SKUs, different regions, different naming conventions, different tagging requirements. For most of these you can just use initiative definitions.

Finally, the naming convention policy above is a little coarse and unforgiving. You may want to look at very customised policies within an initiative so that you can restrict the enforcement to certain provider types such as this VM naming policy from Richard Green. You might also want to use the substring() function so that you can pull out location codes or environment codes from the naming convention and then ensure that they are from a list of allowedValues. You could get very precise in what is permitted.

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Feel free to explorer our depth labs on creating custom policies and custom policy initiatives!

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How to find all the Azure Built-In Roles for Azure RBAC with Azure CLI, PowerShell, Docs, or AzAdvertizer

Here are a bunch of ways you can find which roles are built into Azure. This will come in super handy when you need to assign a role to a service principal or user with Azure CLI commands like this:

  • Query the big honking json
  • Query all, but only return Name and Id in a nice table
  • Filter by name contains:

This one filters for roles with “Map” in the name:

Azure PowerShell

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/az.resources/get-azroledefinition?view=azps-3.8.0

This page has all the built in roles: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/role-based-access-control/built-in-roles

AzAdvertizer

Just found this site today by Julian Hayward. It’s a great way to find roles

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az policy assignment

Manage resource policy assignments.

az policy assignment create

Create a resource policy assignment.

Create a resource policy assignment at scope

Create a resource policy assignment and provide rule parameter values.

Create a resource policy assignment with a system assigned identity.

Create a resource policy assignment with a system assigned identity. The identity will have 'Contributor' role access to the subscription.

Create a resource policy assignment with a user assigned identity.

Create a resource policy assignment with an enforcement mode. It indicates whether a policy effect will be enforced or not during assignment creation and update. Please visit https://aka.ms/azure-policyAssignment-enforcement-mode for more information.

Optional Parameters

Description of the policy assignment.

Display name of the policy assignment.

Enforcement mode of the policy assignment, e.g. Default, DoNotEnforce. Please visit https://aka.ms/azure-policyAssignment-enforcement-mode for more information.

Scope that the system assigned identity can access.

The location of the policy assignment. Only required when utilizing managed identity.

Provide this flag to use system assigned identity for policy assignment. Check out help for more examples.

UserAssigned Identity Id to be used for policy assignment. Check out help for more examples.

Name of the new policy assignment.

Space-separated scopes where the policy assignment does not apply.

JSON formatted string or a path to a file or uri with parameter values of the policy rule.

Name or id of the policy definition. If not provided, a policy set definition parameter must be provided.

Name or id of the policy set definition. If not provided, a policy definition parameter must be provided.

The resource group where the policy will be applied.

Role name or id that will be assigned to the managed identity.

Scope to which this policy assignment applies.

Increase logging verbosity to show all debug logs.

Show this help message and exit.

Only show errors, suppressing warnings.

Output format.

JMESPath query string. See http://jmespath.org/ for more information and examples.

Name or ID of subscription. You can configure the default subscription using az account set -s NAME_OR_ID .

Increase logging verbosity. Use --debug for full debug logs.

az policy assignment delete

Delete a resource policy assignment.

Delete a resource policy assignment. (autogenerated)

Required Parameters

Name of the policy assignment.

Scope at which this policy assignment subcommand applies. Defaults to current context subscription.

az policy assignment list

List resource policy assignments.

Include policy assignments either inherited from parent scope or at child scope.

az policy assignment show

Show a resource policy assignment.

Show a resource policy assignment. (autogenerated)

az policy assignment update

Update a resource policy assignment.

Update a resource policy assignment's description.

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