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    5. Panorama Orchestrated Deployments in Azure
    6. Prepare for an Orchestrated Deployment

    Prepare for an Orchestrated Deployment

    Learn about the prerequisites to create an orchestrated deployment.
    Complete the following tasks before you orchestrate a VM-Series firewall on Azure.
    All VM-Series firewall interfaces must be assigned an IPv4 address when deployed in a public cloud environment. IPv6 addresses are not supported.

    Configuration Prerequisites

    Complete the following basic tasks on Panorama and Azure.
    • Azure
      • Create a service principal to enable the plugin to make API calls.
      • Plan a CIDR block specifically dedicated to VM-Series firewall Transit VNet. The plugin manages this CIDR block and uses it to deploy the initial firewall VNet and perform as future upgrades to new template stacks.
        The minimum CIDR range is /22.
    • Panorama
      • Ensure that you have a valid license API key configured on Panorama. This allows the plugin to manage delicensing on scale-in autoscaling events. See Install a License Deactivation API Key.
      • Install the latest version of the VM-series plugin on Panorama to allow Application Insight configuration to be added to template stack.
    • Qualified Azure Regions
      Panorama orchestrated deployments are supported in all regions that support the VM-Series firewall. The following regions have been qualified; if you deploy in an unlisted region and you encounter an issue, contact support.
      • West US
      • West US 2
      • North Central US
      • East US
      • East US 2
      • West Europe
      • Germany West Central
      • UAE North
      • West India
      • Australia Southeast
    While planning your deployment please note that if you are currently running a Panorama Plugin for Azure version 2.x, upgrading to the current version is not allowed. Along with this, once the current version is installed, downgrading to a version 2.x plugin is not allowed. See Panorama Plugin for Azure in the Compatibility Matrix.

    Orchestration Permissions

    The is a sample JSON file with permissions for the Template Deployer role. In the
    AssignableScopes
     section, include all relevant subscriptions that must be queried, including the subscription into which the deployment is deployed and EVERY subscription containing an application VNET that is peered to the VM-Series firewall VNet where protected resources exist.
    {
    "Name": "Template Deployment",
    "IsCustom": true,
    "Description": "Manage template deployments.",
    "Actions": [
        "Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourcegroups/*",
        "Microsoft.Resources/deployments/write",
        "Microsoft.Resources/deployments/operationStatuses/read",
        "Microsoft.Resources/deployments/read",
        "Microsoft.Resources/deployments/delete",
        "Microsoft.Network/publicIPPrefixes/write",
        "Microsoft.Network/publicIPPrefixes/read",
        "Microsoft.Network/publicIPPrefixes/delete",
        "Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/write",
        "Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/read",
        "Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/delete",
        "Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/join/action",
        "Microsoft.Network/natGateways/write",
        "Microsoft.Network/natGateways/read",
        "Microsoft.Network/natGateways/delete",
        "Microsoft.Network/natGateways/join/action",
        "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/read",
        "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/write",
        "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/delete",
        "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/subnets/write",
        "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/subnets/read",
        "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/subnets/delete",
        "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/subnets/join/action",
        "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/virtualNetworkPeerings/read",
        "Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups/write",
        "Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups/read",
        "Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups/delete",
        "Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups/join/action",
        "Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/write",
        "Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/read",
        "Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/delete",
        "Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/probes/join/action",
        "Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/backendAddressPools/join/action",
        "Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/frontendIPConfigurations/read",
        "Microsoft.Network/locations/serviceTags/read",
        "Microsoft.Network/applicationGateways/read",
        "Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/read",
        "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/write",
        "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/read",
        "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/delete",
        "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets/virtualMachines/read",
        "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/read",
        "Microsoft.Compute/images/read",
        "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/read",
        "Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/read",
        "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/read",
        "Microsoft.Network/locations/serviceTags/read",
        "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/read",
        "Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/read",
        "Microsoft.insights/components/write",
        "Microsoft.insights/components/read",
        "Microsoft.insights/components/delete",
        "Microsoft.insights/autoscalesettings/write"
    ]
     "NotActions": [
    ],
     "AssignableScopes": [
        "/subscriptions/{deployment-subscription}",
        "/subscriptions/{app1-subscription}",
        "/subscriptions/{app2-subscription}",
        .
        .
        .
    ]
}

    Create a Custom Role and Associate it with an Active Directory

    1. To create an Active Directory in Azure, Navigate to Azure Active Directory and click on
      App Registrations
       on the left, then click
      Add
       and provide a name.
    2. Create a custom role with the permissions the plugin requires.
      1. Log in to the Azure CLI.
        az login
      2. Create a custom role from the file in Orchestration Permissions.
        az role definition create --role-definition <role-json-file>
    3. Associate the role with Active Directory you created in Step 1. You can use the console or the CLI.
      You must repeat this step in every subscription defined in the
      assignableScope
       section of the custom role in Orchestration Permissions.
      Console
      1. On the Azure portal, navigate to
        Subscriptions
         and select your subscription.
      2. On the left select
        Access Control (IAM)
         and then
        Role Assignments
         on the top bar.
      3. Select
        Add
         and chose
        add role assignment
        .
        • Select the role created you created in Step 3 and leave "Assign access to" as Active Directory user.
        • Select the active directory created in Step 1 and click
          Save
          .
      CLI:
      In the following command,
      <role-name>
       refers to the name in the sample JSON file, in the earlier example,
      Template Deployment
      .
      az ad sp create-for-rbac --name <name-of-service-principal>
--role <role-name>
--output json

    Find Your Azure Directory Domain Name

    For the plugin to provide links to your Azure deployment and Application Insights instance in Azure Portal, you must identify the directory domain for your subscription, as shown below:

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