How to configure AzureAD

Follow this step-by-step guide to configure the integration between Port and Azure Active Directory.

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In order to complete the process you will need to contact us to receive the information you require, as well as the information Port requires from you. All is elaborated below in the following section.

Port-AzureAd integration benefits

• Connect to the Port application via an AzureAD app.
• Your AzureAD teams will be automatically synced with Port upon a user sign-in.
• Set granular permissions on Port according to your AzureAD groups.

How to configure a Port application in Azure AD

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Prerequisites

To make the Port app connection work, users who have access need to have a legal value in their Email field in Azure AD.

Step #1: Register a new application

1. In the Microsoft Azure Portal, go to Azure Active Directory.

2. Click on App registrations.

   

3. Click on New registration at the top of the page

   

4. Define the Port application settings:

   4.1 Name: Insert a friendly name for the Port app, like Port.

   4.2 Supported account types: Please select the option that is appropriate for your organization.

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   For most use cases this would be Accounts in this organizational directory only (Default Directory only - Single tenant).

   4.3 Redirect URI:

   • Set Platform to Web.
   • Set URL to https://auth.getport.io/login/callback.

   

   4.4 Click Register.

Step #2: Customize your Port app with Login URL and Logo

1. On the new Port App page, click Branding & Properties.

   

   1.1 Home page URL: paste the following URL:

   https://auth.getport.io/authorize?response_type=token&client_id=96IeqL36Q0UIBxIfV1oqOkDWU6UslfDj&connection={CONNECTION_NAME}&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.getport.io
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   We will provide your {CONNECTION_NAME} (Contact us on Slack/Intercom).

   1.2 Add the Port logo (optional):

   

   1.3 Publisher domain: Select the domain matching your user emails (for example getport.io).

   

   1.4 Click Save.

Step #3: Configuring the application permissions

1. On the Port App page, click API Permissions.

   

2. Click Add a permission:

   

3. On the Microsoft APIs tab:

   3.1 Click on Microsoft Graph

   

   3.2 Click on Delegate Permissions

   

   3.3 Search and mark the following permissions:

   • email, openid, profile, User.read.

   

   3.4 Click Add permissions.

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   (OPTIONAL) Grant admin consent: when users from your organization will first log in, they will be prompted to confirm the permissions specified here. You can click the Grant admin consent for Default Directory to automatically approve their permissions.

Step #4: Configuring the application claims

1. On the Port App page, click Token configuration:

   

2. Click Add optional claim:

   

3. Select ID as the token type and then select the email claim, then click Add:

   

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   Repeat the same process for Access and SAML (3 times total).

4. Your optional claims will look like this:

   

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   If you wish to configure the groups claim to pull your AzureAD groups into Port, please follow How to allow pulling AzureAD groups to Port.

Step #5: Configuring application secret

1. On the Port App page, click Certificates & Secrets:

   

2. On the Client secrets tab, click the New client secret button:

   

   2.1 Description: Enter a secret description, for example Port Login Client Secret.

   2.2 Expires: Select when will the secret expires.

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   Be sure to mark on your calendar the expiration date of the secret. The secret needs to be replaced before its expiration, otherwise login to Port will be disabled.

   2.3 Click Add.

   A secret will be created and its Value will appear as shown in the image below. Immediately document the secret’s value because we will need it for our next step.

   COPY YOUR SECRET NOW

   Be advised that your secret will never appear again after you leave this page.

   

Step #6: Providing the application information to Port

Port needs the following information for this process:

• The Client Secret value that you created on Step 5: Configuring application secret.
• The Application (Client) ID, which appears on the Port application overview page:

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Port will provide you the CONNECTION_NAME needed for the homepage URL of the App, as described on Step 2.

Step #7: Exposing the application to your organization

1. Assigning the App to organization users and groups

   After the app setup is complete, you can proceed to assign it to your organization’s users and groups, by distributing it in your organization:

   1.1 Go to Azure Active Directory.

   1.2 Go to Enterprise Applications:

   

2. Click on the Port app:

   

3. Click on Users and Groups:

   

4. Click Add user/group:

   

   4.1 Select users and groups you want to grant access to Port.

   4.2 Click Assign.

5. Make the Port application visible on the myapplications page:

   5.1 Go to Azure Active Directory.

   5.2 Go to Enterprise Applications.

   5.3 Click on the Port app.

   5.4 Click on Properties:

   

   5.5 Set the application properties:

   • Mark Enabled for users to sign-in? as Yes.

   • Mark Visible to users? as Yes.

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   By default the Assignment required? flag is set to No, meaning any user with the Homepage URL to the Port app can access it, even if the app isn’t directly assigned to them. Changing the flag to Yes means only users and groups the app is directly assigned to can use and access it.

   

   You should see the Port app on the https://myapplications.microsoft.com dashboard:

   

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   Users can also manually access Port by going to the App Homepage URL: https://auth.getport.io/authorize?response_type=token&client_id=96IeqL36Q0UIBxIfV1oqOkDWU6UslfDj&connection={CONNECTION_NAME}&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.getport.io

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Permissions required to pull AzureAD groups to Port

Port can query the group membership of users who log in through the AzureAD SSO, and add their teams as team entities inside Port. This allows the platform engineers to take advantage of both existing groups from AzureAD and teams created manually inside Port to manage permissions and access to resources inside Port's catalog.

Important: In order to import Azure AD groups into Port, Port will require the connection app to approve the Directory.Read.All permission