Connect your Microsoft Azure account

Connect your Microsoft Azure account with the Hybrid Cloud Console to receive various benefits, depending on the services that you connect with. These benefits include gold images, auto-registration of provisioned systems, subscription reporting, and Red Hat Lightspeed.

You can connect your Microsoft Azure account to the following services in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console:

Cost management
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Connect your Microsoft Azure account to cost management to track your cloud costs. You can use the cost management service to perform financially related tasks, such as:

  • Visualizing, understanding, and analyzing the use of resources and costs
  • Forecasting your future consumption and comparing them with budgets
  • Optimizing resources and consumption
  • Identifying patterns of usage for further analysis
  • Integrating with third-party tools that can benefit from cost and resourcing data

RHEL management bundle
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Connect your Microsoft Azure account to the RHEL management bundle in the Hybrid Cloud Console to use your existing Red Hat product subscriptions on Microsoft Azure.

The RHEL management bundle grants access to additional capabilities which are useful to deploying Red Hat products on the public cloud, including:

  • Red Hat gold images: You can use Red Hat cloud images in Microsoft Azure and bring your own subscription instead of paying hourly.
  • Autoregistration: This allows cloud instances to automatically connect to console.redhat.com when provisioned so you can use Red Hat Lightspeed services. Important
    To use RHEL management, you must enable Simple Content Access.

Azure Lighthouse
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Azure Lighthouse is a Microsoft Azure service that provides secure access control and managed services for customers and partners. If you add the RHEL management bundle to your Microsoft Azure integration, the Hybrid Cloud Console cloud integrations wizard takes you to Azure Lighthouse to deploy a custom template to link your Red Hat and Microsoft Azure accounts.

In your Azure account, deploying the template sets up two Azure roles for RHEL Management:

  • Reader: This role allows the Hybrid Cloud Console to view all resources, but it cannot make any changes.
  • Managed Services Registration assignment Delete: This role enables clean-up of the authorization when you remove the Hybrid Cloud Console integration.

For more information about the Azure Resource Manager template, see Deploy the Azure Resource Manager template in the Azure documentation.

Create a Microsoft Azure integration
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You can connect your Microsoft Azure account to the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console as a cloud integration so that you can use your Microsoft Azure data with Hybrid Cloud Console services.

Before you begin
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  • You are logged in to the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console as an Organization Administrator or as a user with Cloud Administrator permissions. Note
    You cannot log in to the Hybrid Cloud Console with your email address unless your email address is the same as your Red Hat login. For more information, see ../get-started/access-hcc.dita#finding-login.
  • You have access to a Microsoft Azure account that you want to use with the Hybrid Cloud Console.
  • Your Microsoft Azure user account has the minimum permissions required to use the Red Hat services that you want to add to your integration:
    • To use the RHEL management service with your Microsoft Azure integration, you must have a non-guest account in your tenant who has a role with the Microsoft.Authorization/roleAssignments/write permission, such as owner, for the Azure subscription you are using. See the following Microsoft Azure documentation for more information:
Note
To access gold images or Azure Hybrid Benefit, create an integration for any Azure tenant subscription ID within an Azure tenant. When a single Azure subscription ID is integrated, Red Hat automatically retrieves the Azure tenant ID and enables gold image access and Azure Hybrid Benefit for all current and future subscription IDs within this tenant.

Procedure
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  1. Go to Settings > Integrations.
  2. Select the Cloud tab.
  3. Click Add integration to open the Add a cloud integration wizard. If this is the first integration you are adding, skip this step.
  4. Select Microsoft Azure, and then click Next.
  5. Enter a descriptive name for the integration, for example, Azure_build, and then click Next.
  6. Optional: Select a service to connect with Microsoft Azure. You can choose to create the integration without selecting a service. You can connect Hybrid Cloud Console services after you create the Microsoft Azure integration.
  7. Follow the instructions in the integration wizard.
  8. If you selected Cost Management, see ../../cost-management/integrate/integrate-microsoft-azure-data-with-cost-management.ditamap#integrate-microsoft-azure-data-with-cost-management for detailed instructions.
  9. If you selected RHEL Management, complete the following steps on the Configure Azure Lighthouse page of the integration wizard:
    1. To access your Azure Lighthouse account, click Go to Lighthouse and sign in with your Microsoft Azure account credentials.
    2. On the Custom deployment page, click Next.
    3. Review the information on the Custom deployment page and then click Create to run the deployment. This action creates two roles in your Azure account: Reader and Managed Services Registration assignment Delete Role.
      Note
      Do not change the values on the Custom Deployment screen. These values are set by Red Hat.
    4. After the deployment is complete, click Go to subscription.
    5. On the Subscriptions page, copy the Subscription ID.
      Note
      All subscription IDs are now included under the tenant ID. If you have already created an integration and enrolled for a subscription ID, the respective tenant IDs are also enrolled. You will not be charged twice.
    6. Return to the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console Configure Azure Lighthouse screen and click Next.
    7. Paste the subscription ID that you copied previously into the Subscription ID box and click Next.
  10. On the Review details page, review the details of the integration and then click Add. Your Microsoft Azure integration is added to the Hybrid Cloud Console.

What to do next
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Verify your integration:

  1. Go to the Integrations page, and select the Cloud tab.
  2. Confirm that your Azure integration is listed and the status is Ready.