Create a Microsoft Azure cloud account in Cloud Assembly

As a cloud administrator, you can create a Microsoft Azure cloud account for account regions to which you will deploy Cloud Assembly blueprints.

To view an example use case of how Microsoft Azure cloud account works in Cloud Assembly see WordPress end-to-end use case.

Microsoft Azure cloud accounts do not require a cloud proxy.

Prerequisites

• Verify that you have the required user role. See What are the Cloud Assembly user roles.

• Verify that you have the required Microsoft Azure administrator credentials. See Credentials for Cloud Assembly cloud accounts.

Procedure

1. Select Infrastructure > Connections > Cloud Accounts and click Add Cloud Account.
2. Select the Microsoft Azure account type and enter credentials and other values.
3. Click Validate.

   The account regions associated with the account are collected.

4. Select the regions to which you want to provision this resource.
5. For efficiency, click Create a Cloud zone for the selected regions.
6. If you need to add tags to support a tagging strategy, enter capability tags. See How to use tags to manage Cloud Assembly resources and deployments and Creating a Tagging Strategy.
7. Click Save.

Results

The account is added to Cloud Assembly, and the selected regions are available for the specified cloud zone.

What to do next

Create infrastructure resources for this cloud account.