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Microsoft Azure Setup
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8. To enabled enable auto-discovery of Azure subscriptions…Azure subscriptions on the tenant level, follow these steps:
a) Select Management Groups in Azure Portal.
b) Select the management group in question (the one from which subscriptions are to be collected by Cloudaware; if the Tenant Root Group is selected, Cloudaware will discover all available subscriptions)
c) Go to Access Control (IAM) on the left → click +Add → Add role assignment.
d) Grant the Cloud application with access to the management group in question:
Under the tab 'Job function roles' select Reservations Reader.
Under the tab 'Members' select the following settings:
a. Role: Reader
b. Assign access to: User, group, or service principal
c. Members: click +Select members → cloudaware-api-access (start typing the application name to choose it from the list)
Click Review + assign.
3 - Configure Certificates & Secrets
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6 - Grant Access To Key Vaults
Сloudaware has to be granted with the access to Key Vault* to be able to check the expiration date of keys and secrets. Set up the access policy for Cloudaware application on the Key Vault level.
*Cloudaware retrieves metadata only ('Azure Key Vault Key' and 'Azure Key Vault Secret' objects). No keys or secrets are accessible to Cloudaware.
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If AKS cluster is AD managed, check this guide to set up the cluster role binding and grant required permissions to Cloudaware.
9 - Microsoft Devices Discovery (Intune) (optional)
Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based endpoint management solution helping to manage user access and simplify app and device management across Microsoft infrastructure. Learn more
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Azure Active Directory Devices
Azure Active Directory Compliance Policies
Azure Active Directory Device Config
10 - Tagging Permissions for Cloudaware (optional)
Use the Tag Contributor role or create a custom role to define the scope of provided permissions on tagging (see 'Custom Role For Tagging').
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The role Tag Contributor uses a recently released Azure API method. Learn more about the role
Cloudaware Setup
1 - Adding Azure Active Directory to Cloudaware
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3. The green light in 'Status' means that Azure Active Directory has been successfully added. If there is a red light, please contact support@cloudaware.com.
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2 - Adding Azure Subscription to Cloudaware
In case you haven't checked the checkbox 'Automatically Discover Subscriptions' as described in the previous section, follow these steps to manually add subscriptions.
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5. Given the checkbox 'Automatically Discover Subscriptions' is checked, the tab 'Untracked Subscriptions' shows all Azure subscriptions Cloudaware has discovered in your Active Directory but is not able to collect due to insufficient access caused by an incorrect role assigned (check step 5 in Assigning Role to Subscriptions ﹣ Reader by default or higher).
3 - Understanding Azure Application in Cloudaware
Such Azure Active Directory credentials as Application ID (Client ID) and Client Secret are stored as Azure Application entity in Cloudaware. Please note that Azure Application can be created only when adding Azure AD.
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