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Tutorial – Deploy Active Directory connector using Azure CLI

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This article explains how to deploy an Active Directory (AD) connector using Azure CLI. The AD connector is a key component to enable Active Directory authentication on SQL Managed Instance enabled by Azure Arc.

Prerequisites

Install tools

Before you can proceed with the tasks in this article, install the following tools:

To know further details about how to set up OU and AD account, go to Deploy Azure Arc-enabled data services in Active Directory authentication - prerequisites

Deploy Active Directory connector in customer-managed keytab mode

Create an AD connector instance

Note

Make sure to wrap your password for the domain service AD account with single quote ' to avoid the expansion of special characters such as !.

To view available options for create command for AD connector instance, use the following command:

az arcdata ad-connector create --help

To create an AD connector instance, use az arcdata ad-connector create. See the following examples for different connectivity modes:

Indirectly connected mode
az arcdata ad-connector create
--name < name >
--k8s-namespace < Kubernetes namespace >
--realm < AD Domain name >
--nameserver-addresses < DNS server IP addresses >
--account-provisioning < account provisioning mode : manual or automatic > 
--prefer-k8s-dns < whether Kubernetes DNS or AD DNS Server for IP address lookup >
--use-k8s

Example:

az arcdata ad-connector create 
--name arcadc 
--k8s-namespace arc 
--realm CONTOSO.LOCAL 
--nameserver-addresses 10.10.10.11
--account-provisioning manual
--prefer-k8s-dns false
--use-k8s

# Setting environment variables needed for automatic account provisioning
DOMAIN_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_USERNAME='sqlmi'
DOMAIN_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD='<password>'

# Deploying active directory connector with automatic account provisioning
az arcdata ad-connector create 
--name arcadc 
--k8s-namespace arc 
--realm CONTOSO.LOCAL 
--nameserver-addresses 10.10.10.11
--account-provisioning automatic
--prefer-k8s-dns false
--use-k8s
Directly connected mode
az arcdata ad-connector create 
--name < name >
--dns-domain-name < The DNS name of AD domain > 
--realm < AD Domain name >  
--nameserver-addresses < DNS server IP addresses >
--account-provisioning < account provisioning mode : manual or automatic >
--prefer-k8s-dns < whether Kubernetes DNS or AD DNS Server for IP address lookup >
--data-controller-name < Arc Data Controller Name >
--resource-group < resource-group >

Example:

az arcdata ad-connector create 
--name arcadc 
--realm CONTOSO.LOCAL 
--dns-domain-name contoso.local 
--nameserver-addresses 10.10.10.11
--account-provisioning manual
--prefer-k8s-dns false
--data-controller-name arcdc
--resource-group arc-rg

# Setting environment variables needed for automatic account provisioning
DOMAIN_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_USERNAME='sqlmi'
DOMAIN_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD='<password>'

# Deploying active directory connector with automatic account provisioning
az arcdata ad-connector create 
--name arcadc 
--realm CONTOSO.LOCAL 
--dns-domain-name contoso.local 
--nameserver-addresses 10.10.10.11
--account-provisioning automatic
--prefer-k8s-dns false
--data-controller-name arcdc
--resource-group arc-rg

Update an AD connector instance

To view available options for update command for AD connector instance, use the following command:

az arcdata ad-connector update --help

To update an AD connector instance, use az arcdata ad-connector update. See the following examples for different connectivity modes:

Indirectly connected mode

az arcdata ad-connector update 
--name < name >
--k8s-namespace < Kubernetes namespace > 
--nameserver-addresses < DNS server IP addresses >
--use-k8s

Example:

az arcdata ad-connector update 
--name arcadc 
--k8s-namespace arc 
--nameserver-addresses 10.10.10.11
--use-k8s

Directly connected mode

az arcdata ad-connector update 
--name < name >
--nameserver-addresses < DNS server IP addresses > 
--data-controller-name < Arc Data Controller Name >
--resource-group < resource-group >

Example:

az arcdata ad-connector update 
--name arcadc 
--nameserver-addresses 10.10.10.11
--data-controller-name arcdc
--resource-group arc-rg

Delete an AD connector instance

To delete an AD connector instance, use az arcdata ad-connector delete. See the following examples for both connectivity modes:

az arcdata ad-connector delete --name < AD Connector name >  --k8s-namespace < namespace > --use-k8s

Example:

az arcdata ad-connector delete --name arcadc --k8s-namespace arc --use-k8s

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