Assign Azure Built-In Roles for Access to Resources

You can assign Azure built-in roles to the Azure app registration that you use for Commvault.

Prerequisites

• If you will use Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell for the steps on this page, use most recent version of the application.

• Your Azure account must have the Role Based Access Control Administrator role

Procedure

Azure Portal

1. In the Azure portal, on the Access Control (IAM) tab, click Add, and then select Add role assignment.

   The Add role assignment pane appears.

2. From the Role list, select the roles that are required for the workload:

   Workload	Roles to assign in the Azure portal
   The following databases: Azure CosmosDB Azure MariaDB Azure MySQL Azure PostgreSQL	Contributor Blob Storage Contributor
   The following databases: Azure SQL Azure SQL Managed Instance	SQL Server Contributor SQL Managed Instance Contributor Blob Storage Contributor
   Azure VMs, encrypted	Not available yet
   Azure VMs, unencrypted	Contributor Storage Blob Data Contributor
   Azure Blob Storage	Storage Blob Data Owner At the subscription level Reader
   Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2	Storage Blob Data Owner At the subscription level Reader
   Azure File Storage	At the storage account level Storage Blob Data Contributor Storage File Data Privileged Contributor At the subscription level Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/read Storage Account Contributor

3. From the Assign access to list, select User, group, or service principal.

4. For Members, do the following:

   1. Click Select members.

      The Select members blade appears.

   2. In the Select box, start typing to select the application that you created in the preceding step.

5. Click Save.

6. To obtain the tenant ID (which is also the directory ID) from the public Azure cloud, go to Azure Active Directory > Properties > Directory.

7. To protect Azure resources with your own storage account, repeat the preceding steps to add the Storage Blob Data Contributor role.

Azure CLI

• Use the following command to assign roles:

  az ad sp create-for-rbac -n Azure_app --scopes /subscriptions/${Azure_subscription_ID}  --role “role” --output json --only-show-errors

  Where:

  - Azure_app is the name of your Azure app.

  - Azure_subscription_ID is the ID of your Azure subscription.

  - role is the role to assign.

• Required roles for Azure workloads are as follows:

  Workload	Roles to assign in Azure CLI/Azure PowerShell
  The following databases: Azure CosmosDB Azure MariaDB Azure MySQL Azure PostgreSQL	Contributor Blob Storage Contributor
  The following databases: Azure SQL Azure SQL Managed Instance	Blob Storage Contributor Role SQL Managed Instance Contributor SQL Server Contributor
  Azure VMs, encrypted	Not available yet
  Azure VMs, encrypted	Storage Blob Data Contributor
  Azure Blob Storage	Storage Blob Data Owner At the subscription level Reader
  Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2	Storage Blob Data Owner At the subscription level Reader
  Azure File Storage	At the storage account level Storage Blob Data Contributor Storage File Data Privileged Contributor At the subscription level Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/read Storage Account Contributor

Azure PowerShell

• Use the following command to assign roles:

  New-AzRoleAssignment -ApplicationId $sp.AppId -RoleDefinitionName 'role'

  Where role is the role to assign.

• Required roles for Azure workloads are as follows:

  Workload	Roles to assign in Azure CLI/Azure PowerShell
  The following databases: Azure CosmosDB Azure MariaDB Azure MySQL Azure PostgreSQL	Contributor Blob Storage Contributor
  The following databases: Azure SQL Azure SQL Managed Instance	Blob Storage Contributor Role SQL Managed Instance Contributor SQL Server Contributor
  Azure VMs, encrypted	Not available yet
  Azure VMs, encrypted	Storage Blob Data Contributor
  Azure Blob Storage	Storage Blob Data Owner At the subscription level Reader
  Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2	Storage Blob Data Owner At the subscription level Reader
  Azure File Storage	At the storage account level Storage Blob Data Contributor Storage File Data Privileged Contributor At the subscription level Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/read Storage Account Contributor