Azure Identity Py

pip install azure-identity

pip install azure-identity-broker

# Service principal with client secret
AZURE_TENANT_ID=<your-tenant-id>
AZURE_CLIENT_ID=<your-client-id>
AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET=<your-client-secret>

# Service principal with certificate
AZURE_TENANT_ID=<your-tenant-id>
AZURE_CLIENT_ID=<your-client-id>
AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PATH=/path/to/cert.pem
AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD=<optional-password>

# Authority (sovereign clouds)
AZURE_AUTHORITY_HOST=login.microsoftonline.com  # Default; or login.chinacloudapi.cn, login.microsoftonline.us

# User-assigned managed identity
AZURE_CLIENT_ID=<managed-identity-client-id>

# Credential selection (new)
AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS=dev|prod|<credential-name>  # Optional, restricts DAC chain

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential
from azure.storage.blob import BlobServiceClient

# Works in local dev AND production without code changes
credential = DefaultAzureCredential()

with BlobServiceClient(
    account_url="https://<account>.blob.core.windows.net",
    credential=credential
) as client:
    containers = list(client.list_containers())

# Exclude credentials you don't need
credential = DefaultAzureCredential(
    exclude_environment_credential=True,
    exclude_shared_token_cache_credential=True,
    managed_identity_client_id="<user-assigned-mi-client-id>"  # For user-assigned MI (also accepts object ID or resource ID)
)

# Enable interactive browser (disabled by default)
credential = DefaultAzureCredential(
    exclude_interactive_browser_credential=False
)

# Set subprocess timeout for CLI-based credentials (default: 10s)
credential = DefaultAzureCredential(process_timeout=30)

# Require AZURE_TOKEN_CREDENTIALS env var to be set
credential = DefaultAzureCredential(require_envvar=True)

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential, get_bearer_token_provider

credential = DefaultAzureCredential()
token_provider = get_bearer_token_provider(
    credential, "https://cognitiveservices.azure.com/.default"
)

# Use with OpenAI SDK
from openai import AzureOpenAI

with AzureOpenAI(
    azure_endpoint="https://<resource>.openai.azure.com/",
    azure_ad_token_provider=token_provider,
    api_version="2024-10-21",
) as client:
    # response = client.chat.completions.create(...)
    ...

from azure.identity import ManagedIdentityCredential

# System-assigned managed identity
credential = ManagedIdentityCredential()

# User-assigned managed identity (client_id, object_id, or resource_id)
credential = ManagedIdentityCredential(
    client_id="<user-assigned-mi-client-id>"
)
# Also valid:
# credential = ManagedIdentityCredential(object_id="<object-id>")
# credential = ManagedIdentityCredential(resource_id="<resource-id>")

import os
from azure.identity import ClientSecretCredential

credential = ClientSecretCredential(
    tenant_id=os.environ["AZURE_TENANT_ID"],
    client_id=os.environ["AZURE_CLIENT_ID"],
    client_secret=os.environ["AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET"],
)

from azure.identity import CertificateCredential

# From file path
credential = CertificateCredential(
    tenant_id="<tenant-id>",
    client_id="<client-id>",
    certificate_path="/path/to/cert.pem",
)

# From bytes with password
credential = CertificateCredential(
    tenant_id="<tenant-id>",
    client_id="<client-id>",
    certificate_data=cert_bytes,
    password="<cert-password>",
    send_certificate_chain=True,  # Required for SNI auth
)

from azure.identity import AzureCliCredential

credential = AzureCliCredential()
# With tenant restriction
credential = AzureCliCredential(tenant_id="<tenant-id>")

from azure.identity import (
    ChainedTokenCredential,
    ManagedIdentityCredential,
    AzureCliCredential,
)

# Try managed identity first, fall back to CLI
credential = ChainedTokenCredential(
    ManagedIdentityCredential(client_id="<user-assigned-mi-client-id>"),
    AzureCliCredential(),
)

from azure.identity import WorkloadIdentityCredential

# Reads from AZURE_TENANT_ID, AZURE_CLIENT_ID, AZURE_FEDERATED_TOKEN_FILE
credential = WorkloadIdentityCredential()

# Or explicit configuration
credential = WorkloadIdentityCredential(
    tenant_id="<tenant-id>",
    client_id="<client-id>",
    token_file_path="/var/run/secrets/azure/tokens/azure-identity-token",
)

from azure.identity import DeviceCodeCredential

credential = DeviceCodeCredential()
# Prints device code prompt to stdout by default

# With custom prompt callback
def prompt_callback(verification_uri, user_code, expires_on):
    print(f"Go to {verification_uri} and enter code {user_code}")

credential = DeviceCodeCredential(
    client_id="<client-id>",
    prompt_callback=prompt_callback,
)

from azure.identity import InteractiveBrowserCredential

credential = InteractiveBrowserCredential()

# With specific tenant and client
credential = InteractiveBrowserCredential(
    tenant_id="<tenant-id>",
    client_id="<client-id>",
)

from azure.identity import OnBehalfOfCredential

credential = OnBehalfOfCredential(
    tenant_id="<tenant-id>",
    client_id="<client-id>",
    client_secret="<client-secret>",
    user_assertion="<access-token-from-client>",
)

import os
from azure.identity import AzurePipelinesCredential

credential = AzurePipelinesCredential(
    tenant_id="<tenant-id>",
    client_id="<client-id>",
    service_connection_id="<service-connection-id>",
    system_access_token=os.environ["SYSTEM_ACCESSTOKEN"],
)

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential

with DefaultAzureCredential() as credential:
    # Get token for a specific scope
    token = credential.get_token("https://management.azure.com/.default")
    print(f"Token expires: {token.expires_on}")

    # For Azure Database for PostgreSQL
    token = credential.get_token("https://ossrdbms-aad.database.windows.net/.default")

from azure.identity.aio import DefaultAzureCredential
from azure.storage.blob.aio import BlobServiceClient

async def main():
    # Preferred: use async context manager for both credential and client
    async with DefaultAzureCredential() as credential:
        async with BlobServiceClient(
            account_url="https://<account>.blob.core.windows.net",
            credential=credential,
        ) as client:
            # ... async operations
            pass

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential, AzureAuthorityHosts

# Azure Government
credential = DefaultAzureCredential(authority=AzureAuthorityHosts.AZURE_GOVERNMENT)

# Azure China
credential = DefaultAzureCredential(authority=AzureAuthorityHosts.AZURE_CHINA)

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential, TokenCachePersistenceOptions

credential = DefaultAzureCredential(
    cache_persistence_options=TokenCachePersistenceOptions()
)

# Allow unencrypted fallback (NOT recommended for production)
credential = DefaultAzureCredential(
    cache_persistence_options=TokenCachePersistenceOptions(allow_unencrypted_storage=True)
)

from azure.identity import ClientSecretCredential

credential = ClientSecretCredential(
    tenant_id="<home-tenant>",
    client_id="<client-id>",
    client_secret="<secret>",
    additionally_allowed_tenants=["<other-tenant>", "*"],  # "*" allows any tenant
)

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential, CredentialUnavailableError
from azure.core.exceptions import ClientAuthenticationError

with DefaultAzureCredential() as credential:
    try:
        token = credential.get_token("https://management.azure.com/.default")
    except CredentialUnavailableError:
        # No credential in the chain could attempt authentication
        pass
    except ClientAuthenticationError as e:
        # Authentication was attempted but failed
        # e.message contains details from each credential in the chain
        pass

import logging

# Enable verbose Azure Identity logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
logger = logging.getLogger("azure.identity")
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

# Or via environment variable
AZURE_LOG_LEVEL=debug