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| ## Step 2. Set up the admin App Registration | ||
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| When BYOC is enabled for your account, Cockroach Labs dynamically provisions a multi-tenant admin App Registration associated with your CockroachDB {{ site.data.products.cloud }} organization and provides you with a URL to grant tenant-wide admin consent to the application. Granting admin consent creates an admin Service Principal in your tenant, which is used to grant Cockroach Labs engineers admin access to the Kubernetes cluster to assist in the event of an escalation. | ||
| When BYOC is enabled for your account, Cockroach Labs dynamically provisions a multi-tenant admin App Registration associated with your CockroachDB {{ site.data.products.cloud }} organization and provides you with a URL to grant tenant-wide admin consent to the application. Granting admin consent creates an admin Service Principal in your tenant, which is used by Cockroach Labs support to act on the Kubernetes cluster in the event of an escalation. |
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- to act on the cluster and to run our automation that initializes infra
| ## Step 3. Set up the reader App Registration | ||
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| In addition to the admin application, Cockroach Labs provisions the CockroachDB {{ site.data.products.cloud }} BYOC Reader App Registration. This App Registration is used to grant Cockroach Labs engineers the default read-only access to Azure cloud resources. | ||
| In addition to the admin application, Cockroach Labs provisions the CockroachDB {{ site.data.products.cloud }} BYOC Reader App Registration. This App Registration is used to grant reader permissions to Cockroach {{ site.data.products.cloud }} automation. |
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- is only used by support for read access on the kubernetes infra
| 3. Review the requested permissions and click **Accept**. | ||
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| ## Step 4. Grant permissions to the reader service principle with Azure Lighthouse | ||
| ## Step 4. Grant persmissions to auth principals with Azure Lighthouse |
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Grant permissions to Entra groups (static)
| ## Step 4. Grant persmissions to auth principals with Azure Lighthouse | ||
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| The CockroachDB {{ site.data.products.cloud }} BYOC Reader application creates a read-only service principle. Use [Azure Lighthouse](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/lighthouse/overview) to enable cross-tenant management to the service principle with least-privilege access and full customer visibility. You can review or remove this access at any time from the Azure portal. | ||
| Use [Azure Lighthouse](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/lighthouse/overview) to enable cross-tenant management that grants individual Cockroach Labs engineers persmissions on the service principle as needed for support purposes. Permissions are applied to the service principle with least-privilege access and full visibility, allowing you to review or remove this access at any time from the Azure portal. |
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*that establishes support infrastructure allowing us to jump in as needed
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https://cockroachlabs.atlassian.net/browse/DOC-16396
https://cockroachlabs.atlassian.net/browse/DOC-16141