Day: June 24, 2021

In my previous post, I wrote about App Services with Private Link and used Azure Front Door to publish the web app. Azure Front Door Premium (in preview), can create a Private Endpoint and link it to your web app via Azure Private Link. When that happens, you need to approve the pending connection in Private Link Center.

Although this is easy to do, you might want to automate this approval. Automation is possible via a REST API but it is easier via Azure CLI.

To do so, first list the private endpoint connections of your resource, in my case that is a web app:

az network private-endpoint-connection list --id /subscriptions/SUBID/resourceGroups/RGNAME/providers/Microsoft.Web/sites/APPSERVICENAME

The above command will return all private endpoint connections of the resource. For each connection, you get the following information:

 {
    "id": "PE CONNECTION ID",
    "location": "East US",
    "name": "NAME",
    "properties": {
      "ipAddresses": [],
      "privateEndpoint": {
        "id": "PE ID",
        "resourceGroup": "RESOURCE GROUP NAME OF PE"
      },
      "privateLinkServiceConnectionState": {
        "actionsRequired": "None",
        "description": "Please approve this connection.",
        "status": "Pending"
      },
      "provisioningState": "Pending"
    },
    "resourceGroup": "RESOURCE GROUP NAME OF YOUR RESOURCE",
    "type": "YOUR RESOURCE TYPE"
  }

To approve the above connection, use the following command:

az network private-endpoint-connection approve --id  PE CONNECTION ID --description "Approved"

The –id in the approve command refers to the private endpoint connection ID, which looks like below for a web app:

/subscriptions/YOUR SUB ID/resourceGroups/YOUR RESOURCE GROUP/providers/Microsoft.Web/sites/YOUR APP SERVICE NAME/privateEndpointConnections/YOUR PRIVATE ENDPOINT CONNECTION NAME

After running the above command, the connection should show as approved:

When you automate this in a pipeline, you can first list the private endpoint connections of your resource and filter on provisioningState=”Pending” to find the ones you need to approve.

Hope it helps!