Creating a custom role

In the following example, we will create a custom role that can only restart VMs in Azure. For this, you need to create a JSON file that will be deployed using PowerShell. We are assigning that role to a user account inside the JSON file, as follows:

1. You can define the custom role by using the following JSON code. You should set the Id to null because the custom role gets an ID assigned to it at creation. We will add the custom role to two Azure subscriptions, as follows (replace the subscriptions in the AssignableScopes part with your subscription IDs):

 { 
"Name": "Packt Custom Role",
 "Id": null,
 "IsCustom": true,
 "Description": "Allows for read access to Azure Storage, Network and Compute resources and access to support",
    "Actions": [
        "Microsoft.Compute/*/read"...