Changes in Mashery Local 5.2 for Microsoft Azure Deployments

The following are changes in TIBCO Mashery Local 5.2 for Microsoft Azure deployments.

Instead of the user account, the Service Principal is now used to:

  • push docker images to ACR (Azure Container Registry),
  • create an AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), and
  • deploy the TIBCO Mashery Local cluster in AKS.

The advantages of using the Service Principal are:

  • an Azure Service Principal is an identity created for use with applications, hosted services, and automated tools to access Azure resources,
  • this access is restricted by the roles assigned to the Service Principal, giving you control over which resources can be accessed and at which level, and
  • for security reasons, it is always recommended to use Service Principals with automated tools rather than allowing them to log in with a user identity.

For information about creating an Azure Service Principal with the Azure CLI, see:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/create-an-azure-service-principal-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest