Enabling Microsoft Defender for Containers for Azure Arc AKS Clusters

Akash Sharma 20 Reputation points
2024-04-08T11:51:54.2533333+00:00

Hello,
I'm encountering a challenge with enabling the plan for Defender for Containers. The Azure documentation and the Azure portal present different interfaces. In the documentation, there are options for "Plan" and "Cloud Workload Protection" under "Microsoft Defender for Cloud" in the Environment settings, specifically under "Defender Plans". https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/defender-for-containers-enable?tabs=aks-deploy-portal%2Ck8s-deploy-asc%2Ck8s-verify-asc%2Ck8s-remove-arc%2Caks-removeprofile-api&pivots=defender-for-container-arc

However, in the Azure portal, I don't see the option for "Defender Plans". Could you please provide me with the necessary documentation or steps to enable Microsoft Defender for Containers for Azure Arc AKS clusters?

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  1. Marilee Turscak-MSFT 33,951 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2024-04-10T20:08:34.56+00:00

    Hi @Akash Sharma ,

    I'm glad that you were able to resolve your issue and thank you for posting your solution so that others experiencing the same thing can easily reference this! Since the Microsoft Q&A community has a policy that "The question author cannot accept their own answer. They can only accept answers by others ", I'll repost your solution in case you'd like to accept the answer .

    Issue:

    You were trying to enable the Microsoft Defender for Containers plan for Azure Arc AKS Clusters and could not find the option for Defender Plans to enable the plan in the Azure portal under Settings.

    Solution:

    The issue resolved itself and you were able to locate the plan. Note that you need to have an active subscription on the tenant in order to enable the plan.

    If I missed anything please let me know and I'd be happy to add it to my answer, or feel free to comment below with any additional information.

    If you have any other questions or are still running into more issues, please let me know. Thank you again for your time and patience throughout this issue.

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