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ghawkes
ghawkes

Reputation: 63

How can I allow other users to deploy to my Azure cloud services?

I created an empty Azure cloud service and I want to allow other developers to deploy to it. So far the only route I can see is adding the developers as Azure subscription administrators. I would rather give them more specific access to the cloud services only.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3559

Answers (2)

Mike Yeager
Mike Yeager

Reputation: 161

It seems that if the original developer downloads the publish profile from Azure (it's an xml file that with a .PublishSettings extension), you can copy the userPWD from that file, give it to another developer and they can paste it into the password field in the Connection section of the Publish dialog.

The userPWD is a string that looks something like this: EFFCLfDqDKHlXcA2YDZPvX4BZXWFaobxaLN0aPJd4HCfa8WxlqEkt2yywBsx

Upvotes: 1

Gaurav Mantri
Gaurav Mantri

Reputation: 136386

No such functionality exist today which will allow you to grant/revoke permissions at the cloud service level. Once a developer is provided access to the subscription, they would have access to all the resources under that subscription.

There's a REST API behind cloud service deployments and all the tools (including Windows Azure Portal and Visual Studio) consume this API for creating deployments. One possible solution would be to build your own solution consuming this API. In this solution you will implement access control based on your requirements so that when your user use this service, they will only see the cloud service they're assigned to and can only manage that cloud service. There's a managed library for consuming this API. You can find more information here: http://www.bradygaster.com/post/getting-started-with-the-windows-azure-management-libraries.

Upvotes: 2

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