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