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Jan 19, 2024
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Final notice of alternate credentials deprecation

Angel Wong
Angel Wong

In November 2019, we announced that the alternate credentials feature will be formally deprecated in March 2020. Since then, a small number of users were grandfathered in with continued usage of existing alternate credentials, which have remained active until today. We will be discontinuing all usage of alternate credentials this month. Users have...

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Sep 11, 2023
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Public preview of Workload identity federation for Azure Pipelines

Eric van Wijk
Eric van Wijk

Do you want to stop storing secrets and certificates in Azure service connections? Are you tired rotating these secrets whenever they expire? We are now announcing a public preview of workload identity federation for Azure service connections. Workload identity federation uses an industry-standard technology, Open ID Connect (OIDC), to simplify the...

CI/CDAzure & Cloud
Mar 30, 2023
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Introducing Service Principal and Managed Identity support on Azure DevOps

Angel Wong
Angel Wong

We are proud to announce that Service Principals and Managed Identities can now be used to authenticate with Azure DevOps. For those who have not heard of them before, these Azure Active Directory identities enable teams to gain access to your Azure DevOps organizations acting as their own application, not as a human user or service account. Why...

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