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Learn Azure Administration

You're reading from   Learn Azure Administration Solve your cloud administration issues relating to networking, storage, and identity management speedily and efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838551452
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kamil Mrzygłód Kamil Mrzygłód
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Understanding the Basics
2. Getting Started with Azure Subscriptions FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing Azure Resources 4. Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks 5. Section 2: Identity and Access Management
6. Identity Management 7. Access Management 8. Managing Virtual Machines 9. Section 3: Advanced Topics
10. Advanced Networking 11. Implementing Storage and Backup 12. High Availability and Disaster Recovery Scenarios 13. Automating Administration in Azure 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring access to Azure resources

In the previous section, you learned how to create a custom role. The next step is to actually use it in Azure resources. Configuring access in Azure is really simple as it is mostly covered by the Identity and Access Management (IAM) feature, which is available both in the portal and through the command line.

In this section, we will show you how quickly we can configure access for your services and validate who has permissions to read or modify them. You are going to learn what role-based access control (RBAC) is and how to use it.

RBAC, as its name implies, relates to controlling access to resources via roles. Each role consists of one or more permissions that describe individual operations a user or an application may perform. You may think of a role as a container for available (or not permitted) operations or actions. While you could assign each permission to each individual identity, it would be a real burden to manage them on...

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