addARMServiceConnection.md

How to add a Service Connection to an Azure Resource Manager

The following steps will guide you on how to add a Service Connection to an Azure Resource Manager in your DevOps organization. This is a required step to connect your Azure Subscription to the pipelines and deploy resources to Azure.

Note: The name you use for the resource will be used as AzureSubscription in the pipeline's variables.

Go to Service connections for more information.

Requirements

• An Azure DevOps Organization.
• An Azure AD application and Service Principal (*).
• Access to an active Azure Resource Manager.

(*) The Service Principal needs to have a Contributor role in the suscription to be able to create resource groups.

Steps

• From your Azure DevOps project, go to Project settings -> Service Connections -> New Service connection.

  

• Select Azure Resource Manager -> Service principal (manual) and fill out the form. Check the Grant access permission to all pipelines option. The name you use for the Subscription Name field will be your AzureSubscription variable in the pipelines. More Info.

  

• Click on Verify and save when done.