ManagedIdentityCredential Class

Authenticates with an Azure managed identity in any hosting environment which supports managed identities.

This credential defaults to using a system-assigned identity. To configure a user-assigned identity, use one of the keyword arguments. See Azure Active Directory documentation for more information about configuring managed identity for applications.

Inheritance

azure.identity.aio._internal.AsyncContextManager

ManagedIdentityCredential

Constructor

ManagedIdentityCredential(**kwargs: Any)

Parameters

client_id

str

a user-assigned identity's client ID or, when using Pod Identity, the client ID of an Azure AD app registration. This argument is supported in all hosting environments.

identity_config

<xref:Mapping>[str, str]

a mapping {parameter_name: value} specifying a user-assigned identity by its object or resource ID, for example {"object_id": "..."}. Check the documentation for your hosting environment to learn what values it expects.

Methods

close	Close the credential's transport session.
get_token	Asynchronously request an access token for scopes. This method is called automatically by Azure SDK clients.

close

Close the credential's transport session.

async close()

get_token

Asynchronously request an access token for scopes.

This method is called automatically by Azure SDK clients.

async get_token(*scopes: str, **kwargs: Any) -> AccessToken

Parameters

scopes

str

Required

desired scope for the access token. This credential allows only one scope per request.

Return type

AccessToken

Exceptions

CredentialUnavailableError

managed identity isn't available in the hosting environment