How to use Managed Identities to access Azure resources securely

HOW TO USE MANAGED IDENTITIES TO ACCESS AZURE RESOURCES SECURELY – Learn how to use Azure Active Directory’s Managed Identities to access cloud resources securely.

Having a crisis of Azure identity? You’d be surprised all the places in Azure where you can make use of Microsoft’s identity tools. In this episode of #KnowOps, Dana shows us the magic of Azure Managed Identities, as well as how to use them to safely use secrets inside of a Linux instance.

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[DanaEpp]

Thanks for watching this week's episode. My sincere apologies for the poor audio in the screencast portion. My good mic died and I had to use the actual source from the Surfacebook, which isn't anywhere near as good. We tried to clean it up, but I know its not ideal. No matter though... I am still able to show how sweet managed identities are!!! Hope you like it!

[LyubomirDimitrovSilverbackbg]

You are too good to be truth. Such a detailed and logical step by step explanation is close to impossible to be found nova days. Thank you, and I hope one day you start your channel once again.

[adrin]

Thanks for this, very clear and helpful. As a remark: don't switch mid-way from CLI to UI, now I'm stuck with half the commands to do this. (Or if you do switch over in the video to UI, mention that the commands can be found in the description/some website/...)

[wilsongottineto]

It's also awesome to see Managed Identities working on K8s too. :)

[sau]

Please help me understand. At 9:04, after you assigned the Managed Identity to the Linux VM and then did a CURL operation to fetch the access token, how did MS authenticate the HTTP request that originated due to CURL ?

[shinojzacharias]

Thanks for this great video. A very clear and useful video to understand managed identities in Azure.

[isc]

Clear presentation and very useful....

[mike]

Great Video. Definitely a keeper. Unfortunately this is way over my head. Not sure how long you've been doing this but damn your good. I understand its value but creating and managing it will take me sometime to learn well. Thanks for all your videos.

[KDOERAK]

great video: short, to the point and practical - thx!

[ivanfarias]

hi Dana, thanks for sharing this super useful!! what is the terminal you use for Azure cli?

[HoundDogZA]

I'm now just wondering how assigning a UAMI to the Linux VM in ARM suddenly gives you access to the token inside the VM. I imagine it's some Azure agent/service or something that passes it through, but I am curious.

[BijouBakson]

Azure Academy can learn a trick or 2 from you sir! Just one remark if you don't mind: The videos in the playlist are in no particular order, this is actually the first video and from the sound of it, there are obviously previous lessons. Perhaps you might consider rearranging the content of the play list?

[asharnavya]

Sir, I am new to Azure DevOps, this designation is quite new. I have a question, can we fetch servicePrincipaID using the Managed identity or Uploaded certificate (.cer) using PowerShell? If Yes, then please lead me.

[ovinophile]

Great content here. Just sad that Dana got taken by the Covid 😢

[edburns]

New subscriber here. I like your presentation style.

[zabeehullah]

hi how can i leverage the managed identity when my resource is in another tenant and my azure AD is in separate tenant?

[birdhousepi]

Thanks. Can you do a video of how to use managed identities correctly within a devops pipeline? I see you can create a service connection for Azure Resource Manager which allows the Managed Identity option but it doesn't allow me to specify which managed identity I want to use. I'm very confused.

[mohdansari]

How to get the activity log of the Managed identity? for example, if MI is used to access secret in KV, how to get it logged...

[cazanu]

Very helpful, thank you for the great guides. :)

[RajKumar-mpis]

Hi speaker nice videos. Could I connect you in fb or watsapp. Need some help in azure