The narrowest Azure OpenAI role for calling models through Entra ID; it can see the endpoint and deployments and use the playgrounds, but not deploy, view keys or upload fine-tuning data.
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Terms in this definition
- Azure OpenAI
Use of OpenAI models in Azure, including GPT, o-series, embeddings, image and Whisper, through either a Foundry resource or an Azure OpenAI resource. Content Understanding isn't available from a standalone Azure OpenAI resource.
- 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.
- Microsoft Entra ID
Cloud identity service from Microsoft, previously named Azure AD, which provides the tenant behind Microsoft 365 and Azure.
- View
Shows a system through one chosen group of related concerns. No view is generic; each one is tied to whichever architecture it depicts.
- Fine-tuning
Continuing to train a pretrained base model on task examples, through supervised fine-tuning, DPO or RFT, so its weights shift towards a style, format or task. It neither acts as a safety control nor adds new knowledge well.
Related terms
- Azure RBAC
Azure's model for granting access: built-in or custom roles are assigned at a scope to users, groups or managed identities. Calling Foundry keylessly with Entra ID requires a data-plane role, for example Foundry User (formerly Azure AI User) or Cognitive Services OpenAI User.