Restricting permissions to a specific Azure resource group.

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To restrict permissions to a specific Azure Resource Group, you can use the Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Azure to define who has access and what they can do with it. Azure RBAC allows you to grant access at fine-grained levels for specific resources. One of the main resources used for this task is the Role Assignment, which binds a Role Definition (the set of permissions) to a user, group, or service principal at a particular scope.

Here's how to do it in Pulumi with TypeScript:

1. First, define the scope of your resource group where the permissions will apply.
2. Create a Role Definition or use a built-in definition that encompasses the permissions you wish to grant.
3. Assign that role to a user, group, or service principal targeted to the resource group scope.

Below is a Pulumi program written in TypeScript that demonstrates how to restrict permissions to an Azure Resource Group by assigning a role to a user or service principal:

```typescript
import * as azure from "@pulumi/azure-native";

const resourceGroupName = "my-resource-group";
const principalId = "your-service-principal-or-user-id";
const builtInRoleType = "Reader"; // Example role, can be changed according to your needs

// Fetch the resource group you want to control
const resourceGroup = azure.resources.getResourceGroup({
    resourceGroupName: resourceGroupName,
});

// Assign the role to the specified principal (user, group, or service principal)
const roleAssignment = new azure.authorization.RoleAssignment("role-assignment", {
    principalId: principalId, // Service Principal or User ID
    roleDefinitionName: builtInRoleType, // Built-in role type or a custom role definition ID
    scope: resourceGroup.id, // The scope of the assignment is set to the resource group
});

export const roleAssignmentId = roleAssignment.id;
```

In this program:

- We import the Azure module for Pulumi.
- Define the name of the resource group and the principal ID of the user or service principal that will receive the access permissions.
- Specify the built-in role type, which in this case is "Reader". This is an example, and you may want to use a different role for your needs, such as "Contributor" or a custom role definition.
- We then fetch the details of the desired resource group using the `getResourceGroup` function.
- We create a new `RoleAssignment` resource, which ties the desired role definition to the principal ID at the scope of the desired resource group.
- Finally, we export the role assignment's ID for reference.

This program assumes that you have already configured Pulumi with credentials to access your Azure account, and that you know the resource group name and the ID of the user or service principal. Make sure to replace `my-resource-group` with your actual resource group's name and `your-service-principal-or-user-id` with the actual ID of the user or service principal you want to assign the role to.

Please modify the `principalId` and `builtInRoleType` to match your specific requirements. The `principalId` should be the unique identifier of the Azure AD user, group, or service principal to which you want to assign permissions. The `builtInRoleType` can be any built-in role or a custom role as per your organization's access control policies.

When running this Pulumi program, it will provision the necessary Azure RBAC settings to restrict the permissions to the specified Azure Resource Group. To apply these changes to your Azure infrastructure, you simply run `pulumi up` in your command line within the folder containing this Pulumi program, and follow the CLI prompts to preview and confirm the changes.