Users and groups in Azure - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Users and Groups Management in Azure

📖 Scenario: You are managing access for a small company using Azure Active Directory. You need to create users and groups to organize employees and assign permissions efficiently.

🎯 Goal: Build an Azure Active Directory setup with specific users and groups, then assign users to groups to prepare for permission management.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create an Azure AD users dictionary with exact usernames and emails

Create an Azure AD groups list with exact group names

Assign users to groups using a dictionary mapping

Add a final configuration to enable group-based access control

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Managing users and groups is essential for controlling access to cloud resources securely and efficiently.

💼 Career

Understanding user and group management in Azure is a key skill for cloud administrators and security engineers.

1

Create Azure AD users dictionary

Create a dictionary called azure_ad_users with these exact entries: 'alice': '[e-mail]', 'bob': '[e-mail]', and 'carol': '[e-mail]'.

Azure

# Create the azure_ad_users dictionary with usernames and emails
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a Python dictionary with usernames as keys and emails as values.

2

Create Azure AD groups list

Create a list called azure_ad_groups with these exact group names: 'Admins', 'Developers', and 'HR'.

Azure

azure_ad_users = {
    'alice': '[e-mail]',
    'bob': '[e-mail]',
    'carol': '[e-mail]'
}
# Create the azure_ad_groups list with group names
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a Python list with the exact group names as strings.

3

Assign users to groups

Create a dictionary called group_membership that maps groups to lists of usernames exactly as follows: 'Admins' has ['alice'], 'Developers' has ['bob', 'carol'], and 'HR' has an empty list [].

Azure

azure_ad_users = {
    'alice': '[e-mail]',
    'bob': '[e-mail]',
    'carol': '[e-mail]'
}

azure_ad_groups = ['Admins', 'Developers', 'HR']
# Create the group_membership dictionary mapping groups to usernames
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a dictionary where keys are group names and values are lists of usernames.

4

Enable group-based access control

Create a boolean variable called enable_group_access_control and set it to True to enable group-based access control.

Azure

azure_ad_users = {
    'alice': '[e-mail]',
    'bob': '[e-mail]',
    'carol': '[e-mail]'
}

azure_ad_groups = ['Admins', 'Developers', 'HR']

group_membership = {
    'Admins': ['alice'],
    'Developers': ['bob', 'carol'],
    'HR': []
}
# Set enable_group_access_control to True
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a simple boolean variable to enable the feature.