Azure: Connect Source Subscriptions

Who can use this feature

Anyone with these permissions: Manage source connections

This article explains how to connect Azure subscriptions to Eon. You can connect as many source subscriptions as you need.

Connect a source subscription

You’ll start this procedure in the Source accounts > Azure subscriptions page by clicking New Connection and selecting Connect subscription.

Before you start

Before you connect your source account, make sure:

Your Azure tenant is set up in Eon. See Azure: Set Up Azure Tenants for instructions.
You have the Azure CLI installed and are signed in to the relevant Azure tenant under an identity that can manage service principals and IAM roles.
You understand the permissions Eon needs to back up your resources. See Azure: Permissions Deployment Files for details.

Provide subscription details

In the wizard, provide the following information:

Tenant ID: Select the Azure tenant that contains the subscription you want to connect.
Subscription ID: Enter the ID of the subscription you want to connect.
Internal resource group name: Optionally customize the name of the resource group where Eon will deploy temporary infrastructure for backup operations. The default is eon-source-internal-rg.

Eon uses these details to generate your deployment command.

Deploy

Choose Terraform or Bash. Eon generates a deployment command pre-filled with any required values.

Bash

Terraform

Select the Bash deployment method.
Paste the provided curl command in a Bash-compatible terminal and run. The command downloads and runs a script that installs the necessary roles using the Azure CLI. You can review the script before running it.
Follow the prompts to choose the subscription you want to connect. Note that the list includes subscriptions in all tenants your Azure user account can access.

The script installs the roles for the subscription you selected. Once the roles are installed, the script then calls the Eon API to add the subscription to your list of connected source accounts.

If you want to connect more subscriptions, you can re-run the script for each subscription.

Confirm

Return to the Eon console and click Connect. Eon verifies that the necessary roles are installed and adds the subscription to your connected source accounts.

You can then close the wizard and view the subscription in the Azure subscriptions tab.

Eon now has read access to your Azure subscriptions and can start discovering resources.