Implementing Managed Identities for Microsoft Azure Resources
A common challenge when building cloud applications is how to manage the credentials in your code for authenticating to cloud services. In this course, you will learn about managed identities for Azure resources that solve this problem for you.
What you'll learn
Security is job zero for everyone in the field of Information Technology these days, whether you work as a Developer or as a Solutions Architect. In this course, Implementing Managed identities for Microsoft Azure Resources, you’ll learn how to leverage managed identities to securely connect to instances of Microsoft Azure services that trust Azure AD authentication. First, you’ll learn the fundamentals of managed identities and what problem they solve. Next, you’ll explore how to create and enable managed identities for supported Azure services and connect to various Azure services without the need to store any credentials in your application code. Finally, you’ll discover how secure connections are established when you use managed identities. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have foundational knowledge of managed identities for Azure resources that will help you as you move forward to build credential free and secure cloud-native applications on the Microsoft Azure platform.
Table of contents
- Introduction 2m
- What Is a Managed Identity? 7m
- Types of Managed Identities 2m
- Azure Services That Support Managed Identities 1m
- Typical Workflow While Using Managed Identities 1m
- Demo: Enabling a System-assigned Managed Identity on an Azure VM 3m
- Demo: Acquiring Access Token Using Managed Identity 6m
- Module Introduction 1m
- Demo: Accessing Azure Storage Using a Managed Identity 16m
- Demo: Creating an User-assigned Managed Identity 16m
- Demo: Access Azure Storage Queues Using Managed Identities 4m
- Demo: Access Azure Key Vault Using a Managed Identity 8m
- Demo: Connect to Azure Event Hubs Using a Managed Identity 11m
- Demo: Access Azure SQL Database Using a Managed Identity 15m
- Demo: Enable Managed Identity on an Azure Function 12m