Azure Managed Identity and Local Development

The Managed Identities for Azure resources feature in Azure Active Directory, provides Azure services with an automatically managed identity in Azure AD. You can use the identity to authenticate to any service that supports Azure AD authentication In this video, let us look at how you can set up your local development environment to work with MSI using the DefaultAzureCredential part of the Azure SDK libraries. We will look into the two options available - Using Environment Variables - Using SharedTokenCacheCredential DefaultAzureCredential (Blog Post) - https://www.rahulpnath.com/blog/defaultazurecredential_from_azure_sdk DefaultAzureCredentail (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU82BTmeNeU Note: Microsoft has renamed Managed Service Identity" to Managed Identity. (Thanks Wonkyu Lee for pointing it out in the comments)