Getting started with Snyk Cloud: Azure

Azure support is currently in Closed Beta. If you are interested in using Snyk Cloud to scan your Azure subscription, please contact your Snyk account team. See Snyk feature release process for more details.

Snyk Cloud scans the infrastructure configuration in your Microsoft Azure subscription and detects misconfigurations that can lead to vulnerabilities.

You can onboard an Azure subscription to Snyk using the following methods:

• Snyk Web UI

• Snyk API

Prerequisites

To start using Snyk Cloud, you need the following:

• A Snyk Business or Enterprise plan

• A new Snyk Organization, with appropriate feature flags assigned by your Snyk contact

• A Snyk Group Administrator or Organization Administrator role

• Access to a Microsoft Azure subscription and associated credentials with permissions to create the following resources:

  • An Active Directory (AD) application registration

  • A federated identity credential

    • If using Terraform to create this resource, your user must have either the Application Administrator or Global Administrator directory role

  • A service principal with read-only permissions

    • If using Terraform to create this resource, your user must have either the Application Administrator or Global Administrator directory role

• Access to the Terraform CLI or Azure CLI (locally or via the Cloud Shell) to create the above resources via Terraform or Bash script

  • If using Terraform or the Azure CLI locally, ensure you configure it with your Azure credentials. See instructions for Terraform or the Azure CLI

• API only: An Organization-level service account with an Org Admin role, to use the Snyk API

• API only: An API client such as curl, HTTPie, or Postman

• API only, optional: jq, to unescape JSON containing the Terraform template or Bash script