Azure Managed Identities: Why are you still using anything else?!?
summary
Claims replacing client secrets and certificates with Azure Managed Identities, demos that use connect-azaccount -Identity to run an Azure Automation runbook which creates a user and writes a tag to a resource group, and a local managed identity emulator (gist) that proxies tokens for development. Shows OIDC federation for GitHub Actions to mint tokens and sign a WinGet package (Pingometer) without secrets, and notes Azure Arc extends identities on‑prem — the demos run and the tag update succeeds.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:57Static secrets problems
- 4:02Managed identities overview
- 8:13Demo: Azure Automation
- 15:13Local testing with emulator
- 19:07OIDC federation demo
- 24:23Resources and closing
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