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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA_mXKy_dKU Azure Managed Identity : Maintaining secure authentication to other Azure services by maintaining no credential in your code. To better understand Managed Identities lets understand few classical scenarios of how we are performing authentication in most Azure services, 1. Scenarios : Keys for Authentication  In this scenario we there are two services communicating to each other  Service A is a client sending a key to Service B . Service B Validates the key check checks the permissions and authorizes  the operations and returns the result. that's fairly simple. This imposes some challenges -- managing the keys  This imposes the higher security risk . Because those key are stored within your service configuration and application configuration files,  While you can move these keys out the of the configuration files to external service like Azure Key Vault. This will let to how can you securely connect to Key Vault withou...