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Management Plane Security

Management Plane Security - Azure Tutorial

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Management Plane Security

- [Instructor] You may hear the term management plane security when referring to Azure. This basically means securing your Azure account. You can secure the Azure Storage account by using role-based access control, or RBAC, and storage account keys. Let's focus in on RBAC first. We should use RBAC to only provide the permissions that the user needs to perform their role. By default, you could assign owner, contributor, or reader. In the case of Azure Storage, we can utilize the role contributor. And the storage account contributor role manages the storage account. You can also use the virtual machine contributor role. The virtual machine contributor role can list the storage account keys, and they'll need to have those keys to create a virtual machine. As always, it is recommended to only provide the rights required to perform the task required. When you have a storage account, there are two access keys. There are 512-bit strings. And they maintain connectivity while regenerating, and…

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