Updating Your Azure DevOps ARM Service Connections To Use The Recommended Workload Identity Federation

With the recent arrival of the Public preview of Workload identity federation for Azure Pipelines, there is a need to efficiently migrate ARM Service Connections to take advantage of its benefits. This includes simplified management, where you no longer need to generate, copy, and store secrets from service principals in Azure Entra ID to Azure DevOps. Additionally, workload identity federation improves security as there is no persistent secret involved in the communication between Azure Pipelines and Azure, reducing the risk of secret leakage or exfiltration. This post provides a step-by-step guide to help you migrate your service connections and start leveraging workload identity federation.

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