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M. ŚwitalikAzure Adventures with C#https://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0424-3_9

9. Managed Identity and RBAC

Michał Świtalik1  
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Zabrze, Poland
 

When working on many services in Azure, we usually use secrets or connection strings in order to connect and authenticate. This way, we have security. What if we could give up connection strings and just call for data? This is when the Managed Identity comes in handy. Managed Identity allows services to authenticate to Azure services without the need for secrets or connection strings. This is a much more secure and convenient option for accessing data from Azure services. This is especially useful for applications running in Azure that need to access other Azure resources securely. ...

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