Azure Security Concepts

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Overview

Accessing Azure services require a set of credentials, including the subscription ID, Active Directory ID, region, management and storage credentials.

Subscription

A resource that ... Equivalent to AWS account. All resources in a subscription are billed together. A subscription is associated with an Active Directory instance.

Subscription ID

The subscription ID can be obtained with 'az account list'; it is reported as "id".

Subscription Name

The subscription name can be obtained with 'az account list'; it is reported as "name".

Azure Management

Azure Management Credentials

Azure Management Credentials Access Key

Azure Management Credentials Secret Key

Active Directory

Active Directory ID

Tenant

Permissions

Contributor

User Access Administrator

Owner

Application Principal

Service Principal

An OpenShift cluster running on Azure has an associated service principal.

Managed Identity

CLI Login

Azure Security Operations | Login

Network Security Group

Azure Networking Concepts | Network Security Group