Azure Managed Identities: No more secrets

This was originally posted at my personal site at: https://programmeral.com/posts/20240409-WhyAzureManagedIdentitiesNoMoreSecrets

Secrets are a hassle

It's very easy for our applications to be littered with secrets. Connection strings, access tokens, passwords, etc. We can't escape them, but we can avoid them where possible. Tracking and managing application secrets is a chore no one likes to do and is so easy to mess up.

In this post we'll talk about Azure Managed Identities. A feature that lets applications hosted in Azure interact …

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