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Understanding requirements for managing Azure

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Understanding requirements for managing Azure

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So, let's go check what is needed for managing Azure with Ansible. The first part of the requirements is in Azure itself. So, on Azure, you need to register an application with Azure Active Directory and create a service principle or an Azure Active Directory user. This is something that is described in the Ansible documentation, which I will show you in just a bit and once you have done that you can move on to Ansible, but let's first go check out Azure. So here we are on azure.microsoft.com and in azure.microsoft.com you need to log in. It has saved my credentials so you can see that I'm already somebody and I have access to Azure portal. If Azure doesn't know about you, you can register for a free account, and you can do so using your Microsoft account or your GitHub account, if you have some. And if you have come so far in this course, you should have a GitHub account by now. So using GitHub is probably easiest. Next, you go to the portal, and that is connecting you to the Azure…

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