Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) is a system that provides fine-grained access management of Azure resources. Using Azure RBAC, you can segregate duties within your team and grant only the amount of access to users that they need to perform their jobs.
In this guide we will be using Azure RBAC to assign roles and view activity logs
Creating User
Step 1:
Visit portal.azure.com, login or sign up if you don't have an account, you can get a free account at azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/
Step 2:
On the Azure portal page click search box and enter Azure active directory, then select Azure active directory
Step 3:
On default directory page click users on the left
Step 4:
On the User page click new user and select create new user
Step 5:
Enter a principal name of your choice, enter a display name and leave the rest of the settings as default, then click review + create
Step 6:
Click create
Step 7:
Click on the user we just created
Step 8:
On the user page click reset password to get a temporary password
Assigning Role to User
Step 1:
On the Azure portal page click the search box and enter resource group, then click resource group
Step 2:
On the resource group page click create button
Step 3:
Enter a resource group name of your choice and choose a region of your choice then click review and create button
Step 4:
After validation has passed click create button
Step 5:
After the resource group has been created, click go to resource group
Step 6:
On the resource group page click Access control (IAM) on the left side
Step 7:
On the access control page click add button, then click add role assignment
Step 8:
On the Add role assignment page search for Virtual Contributor in the search box
Step 9:
Scroll down and select Virtual Machine Contributor then click next
Step 10:
On the Add role assignment page click select members, then select a member and click select
Step 11:
Add description and click review + assign button
Step 12:
Viola!!! role has been added, now to view activity log, click activity log on the left
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