Azure Permissions
Permissions required to set up Azure resources.
Azure cloud provider requires a set of permissions to manage the Azure resources. Here is a list of all permissions and reasons of why they’re required.
// Required to create, delete or update LoadBalancer for LoadBalancer service
Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/delete
Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/read
Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/write
Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/backendAddressPools/read
Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/backendAddressPools/write
Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/backendAddressPools/delete
// Required to allow query, create or delete public IPs for LoadBalancer service
Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/delete
Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/read
Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/write
// Required if public IPs from another resource group are used for LoadBalancer service
// This is because of the linked access check when adding the public IP to LB frontendIPConfiguration
Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/join/action
// Required to create or delete security rules for LoadBalancer service
Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups/read
Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups/write
// Required to create, delete or update AzureDisks
Microsoft.Compute/disks/delete
Microsoft.Compute/disks/read
Microsoft.Compute/disks/write
Microsoft.Compute/locations/DiskOperations/read
// Required to create, update or delete storage accounts for AzureFile or AzureDisk
Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/delete
Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/listKeys/action
Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/read
Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/write
Microsoft.Storage/operations/read
// Required to create, delete or update routeTables and routes for nodes
Microsoft.Network/routeTables/read
Microsoft.Network/routeTables/routes/delete
Microsoft.Network/routeTables/routes/read
Microsoft.Network/routeTables/routes/write
Microsoft.Network/routeTables/write
// Required to query information for VM (e.g. zones, faultdomain, size and data disks)
Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/read
// Required to attach AzureDisks to VM
Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/write
// Required to query information for vmssVM (e.g. zones, faultdomain, size and data disks)
Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/read
Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/virtualMachines/read
Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/virtualmachines/instanceView/read
// Required to add VM to LoadBalancer backendAddressPools
Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/write
// Required to add vmss to LoadBalancer backendAddressPools
Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/write
// Required to attach AzureDisks and add vmssVM to LB
Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/virtualmachines/write
// Required to upgrade VMSS models to latest for all instances
// only needed for Kubernetes 1.11.0-1.11.9, 1.12.0-1.12.8, 1.13.0-1.13.5, 1.14.0-1.14.1
Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/manualupgrade/action
// Required to query internal IPs and loadBalancerBackendAddressPools for VM
Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/read
// Required to query internal IPs and loadBalancerBackendAddressPools for vmssVM
microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/virtualMachines/networkInterfaces/read
// Required to get public IPs for vmssVM
Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/virtualMachines/networkInterfaces/ipconfigurations/publicipaddresses/read
// Required to check whether subnet existing for ILB in another resource group
Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/read
Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/subnets/read
// Required to create, update or delete snapshots for AzureDisk
Microsoft.Compute/snapshots/delete
Microsoft.Compute/snapshots/read
Microsoft.Compute/snapshots/write
// Required to get vm sizes for getting AzureDisk volume limit
Microsoft.Compute/locations/vmSizes/read
Microsoft.Compute/locations/operations/read
// Required to create, update or delete PrivateLinkService for Service
Microsoft.Network/privatelinkservices/delete
Microsoft.Network/privatelinkservices/privateEndpointConnections/delete
Microsoft.Network/privatelinkservices/read
Microsoft.Network/privatelinkservices/write
Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/subnets/write
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Last modified
July 12, 2022
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