createAzureContext: Create an Azure Context.

In Microsoft/AzureSMR: Manage and Interact with Azure Resources

Description

Create a container (azureActiveContext) for holding variables used by the AzureSMR package. If tenantID, clientID and authKey are provided, attempts to authenticate the session against Azure.

Usage

createAzureContext(tenantID, clientID, authKey, configFile, authType, resource)

Arguments

tenantID	The tenant ID provided during creation of the Active Directory application / service principal
clientID	The client ID provided during creation of the Active Directory application / service principal
authKey	The authentication key provided during creation of the Active Directory application / service principal
configFile	location of file that contains configuration in JSON format. By default, this location is at getOption("AzureSMR.config")
authType	Auth type for getting token: "ClientCredential", "DeviceCode"
resource	Resource to use for getting token

Details

See the Azure documentation (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/resource-group-create-service-principal-portal/) for information to configure an Active Directory application.

Value

An azureActiveContext object

See Also

setAzureContext(), azureAuthenticate(), [read.AzureSMR.config)]

[read.AzureSMR.config)]: R:read.AzureSMR.config)

Other azureActiveContext functions: setAzureContext

Microsoft/AzureSMR documentation built on July 7, 2019, 11:25 p.m.