In the previous section, you learned how to create a custom role. The next step is to actually use it in Azure resources. Configuring access in Azure is really simple as it is mostly covered by the Identity and Access Management (IAM) feature, which is available both in the portal and through the command line.
In this section, we will show you how quickly we can configure access for your services and validate who has permissions to read or modify them. You are going to learn what role-based access control (RBAC) is and how to use it.
RBAC, as its name implies, relates to controlling access to resources via roles. Each role consists of one or more permissions that describe individual operations a user or an application may perform. You may think of a role as a container for available (or not permitted) operations or actions. While you could assign each permission to each individual identity, it would be a real burden to manage them on...