In this post, we'll look at what Azure Identity is, how it integrates with other Azure client libraries, and how we can use it outside of the Azure SDK to simplify Azure Active Directory authentication to services like Azure SQL or the Microsoft Graph API.
An introduction of the new features in the Azure Identity library, including changes to DefaultAzureCredential, new credential additions, more configurations, and other improvements.
How do your apps identify themselves to the cloud resources you are using? This is one of the most important considerations when building a cloud-native app. When you write a service, you should be able to take the same code and run it on your dev box and in any of the Azure clouds without code changes.
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