Azure

Prepare Azure Environment

For provisioning Kubernetes clusters with the Azure cloud provider Kubermatic needs a service account with (at least) the Azure role Contributor. Follow the steps below to create a matching service account.

Login to Azure and Get Basic Information

Login to Azure with Azure CLI az.

This command opens in your default browser window where you can authenticate. Get your subscription ID once you are logged in successfully.

az account show --query id -o json

********-****-****-****-************

Get your Tenant ID -

az account show --query tenantId -o json

********-****-****-****-************

Create a new app using -

az ad sp create-for-rbac --role="Contributor" --scopes="/subscriptions/********-****-****-****-************"

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{
  "appId": "********-****-****-****-************",
  "displayName": "azure-cli-2018-11-25-08-01-39",
  "name": "http://azure-cli-2018-11-25-08-01-39",
  "password": "********-****-****-****-************",
  "tenant": "********-****-****-****-************"
}

Enter provider credentials using the values mentioned in the step Prepare Azure Environment into Kubermatic Dashboard:

• Client ID: Take the value of appId

• Client Secret: Take the value of password

• Tenant ID: your tenant ID

• Subscription ID: your subscription ID