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Jonathan Allen
Jonathan Allen

Reputation: 70307

How do I give permission to publish websites to Azure?

How do I give someone permission to publish an ASP.NET MVC website to Azure without just handing over my personal credentials?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 6788

Answers (2)

ahmelsayed
ahmelsayed

Reputation: 7392

Using the new Azure Resource Manager (ARM) you can use Role Based Access Control (RBAC) to grant a user a certain access on a certain Azure resource that you own.

There are 3 default RBAC roles: Owner, Contributor and Reader. If you want a user to be able to publish to a site without giving them your personal creds you should be able to add then as a Contributor to that particular site and they will be able to see that site in portal and use their own publishing credentials.

This is a much more granular approach than co-admin where the co-admin will have access to your entire subscription.

Read more about how to setup RBAC in Azure Websites and Publishing here

Upvotes: 6

Simon W
Simon W

Reputation: 5496

Your options depend on:

  1. Azure Websites: you can utilise traditional FTP for uploads and set username / password as required; use deploy from source control systems such as Github (the deployer doesn't even need to know your site details - just the repository to check into); deploy from Dropbox; deploy from Visual Studio using a Publishing Profile (certificate based). Full details listed on the Azure site.
  2. Azure Cloud Services (Web Role): Publishing Profile.

Websites have a bit more flexibility than Cloud Services and if you use the Publishing Profile approach the user will need to be added to your Azure Subscription as a co-admin (this will change in future but is a restriction today).

Upvotes: 2

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