Permission to Azure Website Contributor

Ji Young Park 박 지영 0 Reputation points
2026-10-05T03:25:50.1733333+00:00

I need access to deploy an internal Python/NiceGUI application to Azure App Service.

Could you please grant one of the following permissions on the target Resource Group?

  • Contributor

or

  • App Service Contributor

The current deployment is failing due to missing permissions:

Microsoft.Web/ServerFarms/write

Microsoft.Web/Sites/write

Azure Role-based access control
Azure Role-based access control

An Azure service that provides fine-grained access management for Azure resources, enabling you to grant users only the rights they need to perform their jobs.

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  1. Manish Kumar 80 Reputation points
    2026-10-05T07:31:48.1666667+00:00

    Hi,

    Community members and moderators can't grant access to your Azure resources. Please ask your subscription Owner or User Access Administrator to assign the role.

    There's no built-in role called "App Service Contributor." Your error needs write access to both the App Service plan (serverFarms/write) and the web app (sites/write), so request one of these on the resource group:

    • Contributor, or
    • Website Contributor + Web Plan Contributor, the least-privilege option. Both are needed, because creating a web app also requires write access to its App Service plan.

    The admin can assign them with:

    bash

    az role assignment create --assignee <user-or-appId> --role "Website Contributor" --scope /subscriptions/<sub-id>/resourceGroups/<rg>
az role assignment create --assignee <user-or-appId> --role "Web Plan Contributor" --scope /subscriptions/<sub-id>/resourceGroups/<rg>

    If you deploy from a pipeline, assign the roles to its service principal or managed identity rather than your user account. Once the role is assigned, wait a few minutes and sign in again before retrying.

    Reference: Azure built-in roles – Web and Mobile

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