---
title: Creating a Role for Azure Front Door
description: "You can add your Azure Front Door to **Flumotion Smart Multi CDN** and use it with your services. To use Azure Front Door, you need to set up the following: - A **Key Vault** with access granted to Front Door.…"
url: "https://www.flumotion.com/docs/multiCDN/creating-a-role-for-azure-front-door/"
updated: "2026-08-26"
category: Guides / CDN Providers
---

# Creating a Role for Azure Front Door

You can add your Azure Front Door to **Flumotion Smart Multi CDN** and use it with your services.

To use Azure Front Door, you need to set up the following:

- A **Key Vault** with access granted to Front Door.
- A **Role assignment** that provides Flumotion Smart Multi CDN access to Front Door.

You can follow the steps described below or download [this script](https://providers-ioriver.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/setup_azure_fd_ioriver.sh) to perform the setup automatically.

### Step 1 – Creating a Key Vault

If you already have a Key Vault instance with access to Front Door, you can use it with **Flumotion Smart Multi CDN** and skip this step.

#### Create a Key Vault with access to Front Door

1. Navigate to **Key Vaults** in the Azure Portal.
2. Click **Create**, and select the relevant **Subscription** and **Resource Group**.

To provide access to Front Door, you must first register the Azure Front Door service principal as an app. Run the following CLI command:

```
az ad sp create --id 205478c0-bd83-4e1b-a9d6-db63a3e1e1c8
```

Once created, assign the appropriate role to allow this service principal to access the Key Vault:

1. Navigate to the created **Key Vault** and select **Access control (IAM)**.
2. Select the **Role assignments** tab.
3. Click **Add** and select **Add role assignment**.
4. From the list of roles, select **Key Vault Secrets User**, then click **Next**.
5. Click **Select members** and search for **Microsoft.AzureFrontDoor-Cdn**.
6. Click **Next** to complete the role assignment.

#### Step 2 – Creating a Role for Flumotion Smart Multi CDN

Follow the steps below to create the role for **Flumotion Smart Multi CDN**:

1.Navigate to the relevant **Resource Group** in your Azure account.

2.Select **Access control (IAM)** from the sidebar.

3.Open the **Role assignments** tab.

4.Create a custom role:

- Click **Add** and then **Add custom role**.
- Select **Start from JSON**.
- Use this [JSON file](https://providers-ioriver.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/azure_fd_role.json).
- Before using the file, replace the **subscription ID** and **resource group** placeholders with your own values.
- Complete the wizard to finish creating the role.

5.Create a role assignment:

- Click **Add** and then **Add role assignment**.
- Search for the role created in the previous step (e.g., `ioriver-role`), then click **Next**.
- Click **Select members**, search for `ioriver-platform`, and select the application.
- Click **Next** to complete the role assignment.

Once completed, you can provide your Azure account details as shown in the example below.

#### Example of Azure Front Door Credentials

```
tenant_id = "d201248a-c2e9-402e-8281-a5d3eefd8d3d"

subscription_id = 'e986b596-dbc9-cf41-8666-985b32e6bf71'

resource_group = "staging"
```