Narrowly scoped built-in role, typically given to a service principal, whose only purpose is onboarding machines into Azure Arc in bulk.
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Terms in this definition
- Role
How an actor normally or expectedly behaves, or the part a person takes in a process. A single actor may hold more than one role.
- Service principal
The tenant-local instance of a managed identity or app registration, which users and Azure or directory roles are assigned to. Those from app registrations authenticate with a stored certificate or secret that needs rotating and can be copied, which suits code running outside Azure.
- Azure Arc
Azure service for managing servers that live outside Azure without moving them, by installing the Azure Connected Machine agent; it does not migrate anything.