Authenticate Your Azure Deployment Workflow by Using Workload Identities

Explore how to authenticate Azure deployment workflows using workload identities in this comprehensive 90-minute Learn Live session. Discover the concept of workload identities, including service principals, managed identities, and federated credentials. Learn to create and link workload identities to GitHub Actions deployment workflows, and configure proper authorization for deploying Azure resources. Follow along with expert presenters Barbara Forbes and John Downs as they guide you through an example scenario, demonstrate creating a federated credential, and discuss assigning permissions for workflows. Gain practical knowledge through a hands-on demo and reinforce your understanding with a knowledge check. By the end of this session, you'll be equipped to implement secure authentication methods for your Azure deployments without managing passwords, keys, or secrets.

- Introduction
- Learning objectives
- Example scenario
- Main goal
- Understand workload identities
- How do workload identities work?
- Create a workload identity for a GitHub Actions workflow
- Demo - Create a federated credential
- Assigning permissions for workflow
- Knowledge check
- Summary and conclusion