Identity and Authentication
The Azure Identity library provides Azure Active Directory token authentication support across the Azure SDK. It provides a set of TokenCredential implementations which can be used to construct Azure SDK clients which support AAD token authentication.
This library currently supports:
- Service principal authentication
- Managed identity authentication
- Device code authentication
- Interactive browser authentication, based on OAuth2 authentication code
- Username + password authentication
- IntelliJ authentication, with the login information saved in Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ
- Visual Studio Code authentication, with the login information saved in Azure plugin for Visual Studio Code
- Azure CLI authentication, with the login information saved in Azure CLI
- Shared Token Cache credential, which shares login information with Visual Studio, Azure CLI, and more
Source code | API reference documentation | Azure Active Directory documentation
To learn how to get started, including getting the package and the prerequisites, please see the README file in azure-identity library source.
To learn about how to set up your environment for Azure Identity to authenticate, please see Set up Your Environment for Authentication page.
There are a list of examples for using Azure Identity library on Azure Identity Examples page.
