azurerm_role_definition resource

Use the azurerm_role_definition InSpec audit resource to test properties of an Azure Role Definition.

Azure REST API version

This resource interacts with version 2015-07-01 of the Management API. For more information see the official Azure documentation.

At the moment, there doesn’t appear to be a way to select the version of the Azure API docs. If you notice a newer version being referenced in the official documentation please open an issue or submit a pull request using the updated version.

Availability

Installation

This resource is available in the inspec-azure resource pack. To use it, add the following to your inspec.yml in your top-level profile:

depends:
  - name: inspec-azure
    git: https://github.com/inspec/inspec-azure.git

You’ll also need to setup your Azure credentials; see the resource pack README.

Version

This resource first became available in 1.3.7 of the inspec-azure resource pack.

Syntax

The name of the Role must be given as a parameter. For built-in roles, such as Owner or Contributor, this role name takes the form of a UUID. For CustomRole’s which you have added to your subscription yourself, the Name field will be what you choose on creation of the Role.

describe azurerm_role_definition(name: 'some-custom-role-name') do
  ...
end

Examples

Ensure a given role has a specific permission

describe azurerm_role_definition(name: 'policy-reader-only')
  it { should exist }
    its('permissions_allowed') { should include 'Microsoft.Authorization/policyassignments/read'}
    its('permissions_allowed') { should_not include 'Microsoft.Authorization/policyassignments/write'}
    its('permissions_allowed') { should_not include '*'}
end

Attributes

id
name
role_name
type
role_type
assignable_scopes
permissions_allowed
permissions_not_allowed

id

The object ID of the Role

name

The name of the Role. For a built-in role this will be an Azure generated UUID. For a CustomRole this will be the name you specified on creation.

role_name

The human readable name of the Role.

type

The type of the object, e.g. Microsoft.Authorization/roleDefinitions

role_type

BuiltInRole or CustomRole

assignable_scopes

Role Assignable scopes.

permissions_allowed

Provider permissions granted with this role.

permissions_not_allowed

Provider permissions blocked with this role.

Other Attributes

There are additional attributes that may be accessed that we have not documented. Please take a look at the Azure documentation. Any attribute in the response may be accessed with the key names separated by dots (.). Given the example response in their documentation:

The API may not always return keys that do not have any associated data. There may be cases where the deeply nested property may not have the desired attribute along your call chain. If you find yourself writing tests against properties that may be nil, fork this resource pack and add an accessor to the resource. Within that accessor you’ll be able to guard against nil keys. Pull requests are always welcome.

Matchers

This InSpec audit resource has the following special matchers. For a full list of available matchers, please visit our Universal Matchers page.

exists

describe azurerm_role_definition(name: 'some-role') do
  it { should exist }
end

Azure Permissions

Your Service Principal must be setup with a contributor role on the subscription you wish to test.