Managed Identity and Microsoft.Azure.Services.AppAuthentication

by Olav Nybø
Managed Identity Azure App Service azure CLI Authentication

I recently wrote a post where I did some exploring into managed identity for Azure app services. I showed how to get an access token, but only briefly mentioned the Microsoft.Azure.Services.AppAuthentication package, and said nothing about how to write .NET Core code that works both locally, in…

Exploring Azure App Service Managed identity

by Olav Nybø
azure CLI Managed Identity Azure Azure App Service

Quite often we want to give an app service access to resources such as a database, a keyvault or a service bus. We used to do this by configuring the app service with secrets that enabled the application to access these protected resources. However, passwords and secrets are always a…