Unattended Authentication to Azure (including managed identities!)
A walkthrough of options for unattended authentication to Azure for automations. Covers managed identity and service principals. Lots of demos including service principals with secrets and certificates with PowerShell. Concepts apply to AZ CLI as well.
Code available at https://github.com/johnthebrit/Random...
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Overview of problem with authentication
01:55 System assigned managed identity
06:40 User assigned managed identity
11:07 Connecting outside of Azure and service principals
14:15 Secret service principal authentication
21:33 Certificate service principal authentication
25:34 Rotating secrets and certificates
27:28 Cleaning up
29:07 Summary and close
