Azure Conditional Role Assignments with Bicep!

In modern cloud environments, finding the right balance between workload autonomy and security control is crucial. While development teams need extensive permissions to manage their resources effectively, security teams must ensure these privileges don’t compromise the organization’s security posture. Azure’s conditional role assignments provide an elegant solution to this challenge, allowing us to grant broad permissions while maintaining strict security boundaries. The Challenge Traditional role-based access control (RBAC) often forces organizations to choose between two suboptimal approaches: ...

July 1, 2025 · 6 min · 1102 words · Jaap de Goeij