Cloud Setup
Connect Azure
Connect an Azure subscription and understand current Azure support.
Azure support is provider-aware and growing. Treat write-heavy actions as permission-sensitive until you verify the exact workflow.
Before setup
- Have the tenant ID and subscription ID ready.
- Create or use a service principal with the right read permissions.
- Add write permissions only if you plan to deploy simulations or run live actions.
- Confirm the target region supports the resources you want to create.
Setup steps
- Open Settings > Azure.
- Enter tenant, subscription, client ID, and client secret details.
- Save the connection.
- Open Dashboard and switch provider to Azure.
- Check inventory or metrics in a region where Azure resources already exist.
Current Azure coverage
- Setup, dashboard switching, inventory, metrics, billing, alerts, and insights are available where permissions and Azure APIs support them.
- Simulation and live infrastructure flows exist for selected Azure resources.
- Deployment can fail even when discovery works if the service principal lacks create or write permission.
Read access is not deployment access
If Azure discovery works but deployment fails, check role assignment, subscription scope, resource group, region, SKU, and quotas.
Azure services and config fields
- Virtual Machine: configure VM size, count, admin username, instance name, OS disk type, image publisher, image offer, image SKU, and region.
- Storage Account: configure storage account name, tier, replication type, account kind, region, and policy.
- Azure SQL Database: configure database name, SKU, max size, collation, and region.
- Function App: configure function name, SKU or consumption plan, and region.
- Virtual Network: configure VNet name, address space, subnet CIDR, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, private mode, and region.
- Azure Container Registry: configure registry settings for Docker image storage.
- Public IP: configure static public IP resources for Azure workloads.
- Network Security Group: configure traffic rules for Azure virtual networks and virtual machines.
- Backend Address Pool: configure Azure Load Balancer backend routing.
- Managed Disk: configure persistent disk storage for virtual machines.
- AKS Cluster: configure cluster name, node count, node VM size, DNS prefix, and region.
- Load Balancer: configure frontend port, backend port, load balancer name, and region.
- VM Scale Set: configure horizontal autoscaling for Azure virtual machines.
- CDN or Front Door: configure global content delivery and edge routing.
- GitHub Repository and Docker Hub: connect source code or container images for deployment workflows.
Azure verification checklist
- Open Dashboard and switch provider to Azure.
- Confirm the selected subscription and region are correct.
- Open inventory, metrics, billing, alerts, or insights for resources that already exist.
- For simulation, start with a small Virtual Machine, Storage Account, Virtual Network, or Function App.
- If Terraform fails, read the logs for role assignment, region, SKU, quota, resource group, or policy errors.
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If your team still runs into setup issues, empty dashboards, billing delays, callback failures, or alerting problems, continue with troubleshooting before re-running the entire onboarding flow.