Azure AD: Applications, service principals & managed identities

Coming late 2022

In this e-book, learn more about Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) with a focus on applications, service principals and managed identities. As a beginner, it can be difficult to wrap your head around the differences between service principals and managed identities and how applications support the creation of them.

After reading this short e-book, you’ll learn:

  • What types of trusted objects can be stored within Azure AD
  • What purpose do applications, service principals and managed identities serve
  • The key differences between applications, service principals and managed identities and when to use each one
  • The different types of managed identities – system assigned and user assigned
  • How to create applications, service principals and managed identities
  • How to secure your Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure using managed identities and service principles

Launching late 2022.