The Azure Identity library provides Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) token authentication support across the Azure SDK. It provides a set of TokenCredential/SupportsTokenInfo implementations, which can be used to construct Azure SDK clients that support Microsoft Entra token authentication.
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Install Azure Identity with pip:
pip install azure-identity
When debugging and executing code locally, it's typical for developers to use their own accounts for authenticating calls to Azure services. The Azure Identity library supports authenticating through developer tools to simplify local development.
Developers using Visual Studio Code can use the Azure Account extension to authenticate via the editor. Apps using DefaultAzureCredential or VisualStudioCodeCredential can then use this account to authenticate calls in their app when running locally.
To authenticate in Visual Studio Code, ensure the Azure Account extension is installed. Once installed, open the Command Palette and run the Azure: Sign In command.
It's a known issue that VisualStudioCodeCredential doesn't work with Azure Account extension versions newer than 0.9.11. A long-term fix to this problem is in progress. In the meantime, consider authenticating via the Azure CLI.
DefaultAzureCredential and AzureCliCredential can authenticate as the user signed in to the Azure CLI. To sign in to the Azure CLI, run az login. On a system with a default web browser, the Azure CLI launches the browser to authenticate a user.
When no default browser is available, az login uses the device code authentication flow. This flow can also be selected manually by running az login --use-device-code.
Developers coding outside of an IDE can also use the Azure Developer CLI to authenticate. Applications using DefaultAzureCredential or AzureDeveloperCliCredential can then use this account to authenticate calls in their application when running locally.
To authenticate with the Azure Developer CLI, run the command azd auth login. For users running on a system with a default web browser, the Azure Developer CLI launches the browser to authenticate the user.
For systems without a default web browser, the azd auth login --use-device-code command uses the device code authentication flow.
A credential is a class that contains or can obtain the data needed for a service client to authenticate requests. Service clients across the Azure SDK accept a credential instance when they're constructed, and use that credential to authenticate requests.
The Azure Identity library focuses on OAuth authentication with Microsoft Entra ID. It offers various credential classes capable of acquiring a Microsoft Entra access token. See the Credential classes section for a list of this library's credential classes.
DefaultAzureCredential simplifies authentication while developing apps that deploy to Azure by combining credentials used in Azure hosting environments with credentials used in local development. For more information, see DefaultAzureCredential overview.
As of version 1.14.0, DefaultAzureCredential attempts to authenticate with all developer credentials until one succeeds, regardless of any errors previous developer credentials experienced. For example, a developer credential may attempt to get a token and fail, so DefaultAzureCredential will continue to the next credential in the flow. Deployed service credentials stop the flow with a thrown exception if they're able to attempt token retrieval, but don't receive one. Prior to version 1.14.0, developer credentials would similarly stop the authentication flow if token retrieval failed, but this is no longer the case.
This allows for trying all of the developer credentials on your machine while having predictable deployed behavior.
VisualStudioCodeCredentialDue to a known issue, VisualStudioCodeCredential has been removed from the DefaultAzureCredential token chain. When the issue is resolved in a future release, this change will be reverted.
The following examples are provided:
DefaultAzureCredentialMore details on configuring your environment to use DefaultAzureCredential can be found in the class's reference documentation.
This example demonstrates authenticating the BlobServiceClient from the azure-storage-blob library using DefaultAzureCredential.
from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential
from azure.storage.blob import BlobServiceClient
default_credential = DefaultAzureCredential()
client = BlobServiceClient(account_url, credential=default_credential)
DefaultAzureCredentialBy default, interactive authentication is disabled in DefaultAzureCredential and can be enabled with a keyword argument:
DefaultAzureCredential(exclude_interactive_browser_credential=False)
When enabled, DefaultAzureCredential falls back to interactively authenticating via the system's default web browser when no other credential is available.
DefaultAzureCredentialMany Azure hosts allow the assignment of a user-assigned managed identity. To configure DefaultAzureCredential to authenticate a user-assigned managed identity, use the managed_identity_client_id keyword argument:
DefaultAzureCredential(managed_identity_client_id=client_id)
Alternatively, set the environment variable AZURE_CLIENT_ID to the identity's client ID.
ChainedTokenCredentialWhile DefaultAzureCredential is generally the quickest way to authenticate apps for Azure, you can create a customized chain of credentials to be considered. ChainedTokenCredential enables users to combine multiple credential instances to define a customized chain of credentials. For more information, see ChainedTokenCredential overview.
This library includes a set of async APIs. To use the async credentials in azure.identity.aio, you must first install an async transport, such as aiohttp. For more information, see azure-core documentation.
Async credentials should be closed when they're no longer needed. Each async credential is an async context manager and defines an async close method. For example:
from azure.identity.aio import DefaultAzureCredential
# call close when the credential is no longer needed
credential = DefaultAzureCredential()
...
await credential.close()
# alternatively, use the credential as an async context manager
credential = DefaultAzureCredential()
async with credential:
...
This example demonstrates authenticating the asynchronous SecretClient from azure-keyvault-secrets with an asynchronous credential.
from azure.identity.aio import DefaultAzureCredential
from azure.keyvault.secrets.aio import SecretClient
default_credential = DefaultAzureCredential()
client = SecretClient("https://my-vault.vault.azure.net", default_credential)
Managed identity authentication is supported via either DefaultAzureCredential or ManagedIdentityCredential directly for the following Azure services:
These examples demonstrate authenticating SecretClient from the azure-keyvault-secrets library with ManagedIdentityCredential.
To authenticate with a user-assigned managed identity, you must specify one of the following IDs for the managed identity.
from azure.identity import ManagedIdentityCredential
from azure.keyvault.secrets import SecretClient
credential = ManagedIdentityCredential(client_id="managed_identity_client_id")
client = SecretClient("https://my-vault.vault.azure.net", credential)
from azure.identity import ManagedIdentityCredential
from azure.keyvault.secrets import SecretClient
resource_id = "/subscriptions/<id>/resourceGroups/<rg>/providers/Microsoft.ManagedIdentity/userAssignedIdentities/<mi-name>"
credential = ManagedIdentityCredential(identity_config={"resource_id": resource_id})
client = SecretClient("https://my-vault.vault.azure.net", credential)
from azure.identity import ManagedIdentityCredential
from azure.keyvault.secrets import SecretClient
credential = ManagedIdentityCredential(identity_config={"object_id": "managed_identity_object_id"})
client = SecretClient("https://my-vault.vault.azure.net", credential)
from azure.identity import ManagedIdentityCredential
from azure.keyvault.secrets import SecretClient
credential = ManagedIdentityCredential()
client = SecretClient("https://my-vault.vault.azure.net", credential)
Credentials default to authenticating to the Microsoft Entra endpoint for Azure Public Cloud. To access resources in other clouds, such as Azure Government or a private cloud, configure credentials with the authority argument. AzureAuthorityHosts defines authorities for well-known clouds:
from azure.identity import AzureAuthorityHosts
DefaultAzureCredential(authority=AzureAuthorityHosts.AZURE_GOVERNMENT)
If the authority for your cloud isn't listed in AzureAuthorityHosts, you can explicitly specify its URL:
DefaultAzureCredential(authority="https://login.partner.microsoftonline.cn")
As an alternative to specifying the authority argument, you can also set the AZURE_AUTHORITY_HOST environment variable to the URL of your cloud's authority. This approach is useful when configuring multiple credentials to authenticate to the same cloud:
AZURE_AUTHORITY_HOST=https://login.partner.microsoftonline.cn
Not all credentials require this configuration. Credentials that authenticate through a development tool, such as AzureCliCredential, use that tool's configuration. Similarly, VisualStudioCodeCredential accepts an authority argument but defaults to the authority matching VS Code's "Azure: Cloud" setting.
| Credential | Usage |
|---|---|
DefaultAzureCredential | Provides a simplified authentication experience to quickly start developing applications run in Azure. |
ChainedTokenCredential | Allows users to define custom authentication flows composing multiple credentials. |
| Credential | Usage |
|---|---|
EnvironmentCredential | Authenticates a service principal or user via credential information specified in environment variables. |
ManagedIdentityCredential | Authenticates the managed identity of an Azure resource. |
WorkloadIdentityCredential | Supports Microsoft Entra Workload ID on Kubernetes. |
| Credential | Usage | Reference |
|---|---|---|
AzurePipelinesCredential | Supports Microsoft Entra Workload ID on Azure Pipelines. | |
CertificateCredential | Authenticates a service principal using a certificate. | Service principal authentication |
ClientAssertionCredential | Authenticates a service principal using a signed client assertion. | |
ClientSecretCredential | Authenticates a service principal using a secret. | Service principal authentication |
| Credential | Usage | Reference | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
AuthorizationCodeCredential | Authenticates a user with a previously obtained authorization code. | OAuth2 authentication code | |
DeviceCodeCredential | Interactively authenticates a user on devices with limited UI. | Device code authentication | |
InteractiveBrowserCredential | Interactively authenticates a user with the default system browser. | OAuth2 authentication code | InteractiveBrowserCredential doesn't support GitHub Codespaces. As a workaround, use DeviceCodeCredential. |
OnBehalfOfCredential | Propagates the delegated user identity and permissions through the request chain. | On-behalf-of authentication | |
UsernamePasswordCredential | Authenticates a user with a username and password (doesn't support multifactor authentication). | Username + password authentication |
| Credential | Usage | Reference |
|---|---|---|
AzureCliCredential | Authenticates in a development environment with the Azure CLI. | Azure CLI authentication |
AzureDeveloperCliCredential | Authenticates in a development environment with the Azure Developer CLI. | Azure Developer CLI Reference |
AzurePowerShellCredential | Authenticates in a development environment with the Azure PowerShell. | Azure PowerShell authentication |
VisualStudioCodeCredential | Authenticates as the user signed in to the Visual Studio Code Azure Account extension. | VS Code Azure Account extension |
DefaultAzureCredential and EnvironmentCredential can be configured with environment variables. Each type of authentication requires values for specific variables:
| Variable name | Value |
|---|---|
AZURE_CLIENT_ID | ID of a Microsoft Entra application |
AZURE_TENANT_ID | ID of the application's Microsoft Entra tenant |
AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET | one of the application's client secrets |
| Variable name | Value | Required |
|---|---|---|
AZURE_CLIENT_ID | ID of a Microsoft Entra application | X |
AZURE_TENANT_ID | ID of the application's Microsoft Entra tenant | X |
AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PATH | path to a PEM or PKCS12 certificate file including private key | X |
AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD | password of the certificate file, if any | |
AZURE_CLIENT_SEND_CERTIFICATE_CHAIN | If True, the credential sends the public certificate chain in the x5c header of each token request's JWT. This is required for Subject Name/Issuer (SNI) authentication. Defaults to False. There's a known limitation that async SNI authentication isn't supported. |
| Variable name | Value |
|---|---|
AZURE_CLIENT_ID | ID of a Microsoft Entra application |
AZURE_USERNAME | a username (usually an email address) |
AZURE_PASSWORD | that user's password |
Configuration is attempted in the preceding order. For example, if values for a client secret and certificate are both present, the client secret is used.
As of version 1.14.0, accessing resources protected by Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) is possible on a per-request basis. This behavior can be enabled by setting the enable_cae keyword argument to True in the credential's get_token method. CAE isn't supported for developer and managed identity credentials.
Token caching is a feature provided by the Azure Identity library that allows apps to:
The Azure Identity library offers both in-memory and persistent disk caching. For more information, see the token caching documentation.
An authentication broker is an application that runs on a user’s machine and manages the authentication handshakes and token maintenance for connected accounts. Currently, only the Windows Web Account Manager (WAM) is supported. To enable support, use the azure-identity-broker package. For details on authenticating using WAM, see the broker plugin documentation.
See the troubleshooting guide for details on how to diagnose various failure scenarios.
Credentials raise CredentialUnavailableError when they're unable to attempt authentication because they lack required data or state. For example, EnvironmentCredential raises this exception when its configuration is incomplete.
Credentials raise azure.core.exceptions.ClientAuthenticationError when they fail to authenticate. ClientAuthenticationError has a message attribute, which describes why authentication failed. When raised by DefaultAzureCredential or ChainedTokenCredential, the message collects error messages from each credential in the chain.
For more information on handling specific Microsoft Entra ID errors, see the Microsoft Entra ID error code documentation.
This library uses the standard logging library for logging. Credentials log basic information, including HTTP sessions (URLs, headers, etc.) at INFO level. These log entries don't contain authentication secrets.
Detailed DEBUG-level logging, including request/response bodies and header values, isn't enabled by default. It can be enabled with the logging_enable argument. For example:
credential = DefaultAzureCredential(logging_enable=True)
CAUTION: DEBUG-level logs from credentials contain sensitive information. These logs must be protected to avoid compromising account security.
Client and management libraries listed on the Azure SDK release page that support Microsoft Entra authentication accept credentials from this library. You can learn more about using these libraries in their documentation, which is linked from the release page.
This library doesn't support Azure AD B2C.
For other open issues, refer to the library's GitHub repository.
If you encounter bugs or have suggestions, open an issue.
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AzurePipelinesCredential so it doesn't result in a redirect response when an invalid system access token is provided. (#37510)AzureAuthorityHosts.AZURE_GERMANYSupportsTokenInfo or AsyncSupportsTokenInfo protocol. Each credential now has a get_token_info method which returns an AccessTokenInfo object. The get_token_info method is an alternative method to get_token that improves support for more complex authentication scenarios. (#36882)
AccessTokenInfo (if available).ManagedIdentityCredential to avoid non-deterministic states (e.g. both resource_id and object_id are specified). (#36950)ManagedIdentityCredential in Azure Cloud Shell environments. (#36438)azure-core to >=1.31.0.send_certificate_chain keyword argument when using certs with the synchronous OnBehalfOfCredential. (#36810)AzurePowerShellCredential now supports using secure strings when authenticating with PowerShell. (#36653)SharedTokenCacheCredential was not picklable.ManagedIdentityCredential was updated to use MSAL (Microsoft Authentication Library) for handling most of the underlying managed identity implementations.These changes do not impact the API of stable versions such as 1.16.0. Only code written against a beta version such as 1.17.0b1 is affected.
AzurePipelinesCredential now has a required keyword argument system_access_token. (#35858)ManagedIdentityCredential. (#36016)OnBehalfOfCredential now supports client assertion callbacks through the client_assertion_func keyword argument. This enables authenticating with client assertions such as federated credentials. (#35812)AZURE_CLIENT_SEND_CERTIFICATE_CHAIN support for EnvironmentCredential.AzurePipelinesCredential, for supporting workload identity federation in Azure Pipelines with service connections (#35397).ManagedIdentityCredential, the retry backoff factor was reduced from 2 to 0.8 in order to avoid excessive retry delays and improve responsiveness. Users can customize this setting with the retry_backoff_factor parameter: ManagedIdentityCredential(retry_backoff_factor=2). (#35070)AzurePowerShellCredential where if pwsh isn't available and the Command Prompt language is not English, it would not fall back to powershell. (#34271)ClientAssertionCredential constructor fails if kwargs are provided. (#33673)ManagedIdentityCredential is more lenient with the error message it matches when falling through to the next credential in the chain in the case that Docker Desktop returns a 403 response when attempting to access the IMDS endpoint. (#33928)AzureCliCredential utilizes the new expires_on property returned by az CLI versions >= 2.54.0 to determine token expiration. (#33947)enable_support_logging as a keyword argument to credentials using MSAL's PublicClientApplication. This allows additional support logging which may contain PII. (#32135)These changes do not impact the API of stable versions such as 1.14.0. Only code written against a beta version such as 1.15.0b1 may be affected.
ManagedIdentityCredential will now correctly retry when the instance metadata endpoint returns a 410 response. (#32200)enable_msa_passthrough suppport for InteractiveBrowserCredential. By default InteractiveBrowserCredential only lists Microsoft Entra accounts. If you set enable_msa_passthrough to True, it lists both Microsoft Entra accounts and MSA outlook.com accounts that are logged in to Windows.AzurePowershellCredential calls PowerShell with the -NoProfile flag to avoid loading user profiles for more consistent behavior. (#31682)ClientAssertionCredential not properly checking if CAE should be enabled. (#31544)ManagedIdentityCredential will fall through to the next credential in the chain in the case that Docker Desktop returns a 403 response when attempting to access the IMDS endpoint. (#31824)AsyncTokenCredential protocol.DefaultAzureCredential, EnvironmentCredential will now use log level INFO instead of WARNING to inform users of an incomplete environment configuration. (#31814)AzureCliCredential and AzureDeveloperCliCredential error checking when determining if a user is logged in or not. Now, if an AADSTS error exists in the error, the full error message is propagated instead of a canned error message. (#30047)ManagedIdentityCredential instances using IMDS will now be allowed to continue sending requests to the IMDS endpoint even after previous attempts failed. This is to prevent credential instances from potentially being permanently disabled after a temporary network failure.ManagedIdentityCredential will now only occur when inside a credential chain such as DefaultAzureCredential. This probe request timeout has been increased to 1 second from 0.3 seconds to reduce the likelihood of false negatives.enable_cae keyword argument to True in get_token. This applies to user credentials and service principal credentials. (#30777)get_token request by each SDK. (#30777)
AZURE_IDENTITY_DISABLE_CP1 environment variable is no longer supported.azure-core's TokenCredential protocol. (#25175)workload_identity_tenant_id support in DefaultAzureCredential.six. (#30613)These changes do not impact the API of stable versions such as 1.12.0. Only code written against a beta version such as 1.13.0b4 may be affected.
developer_credential_timeout to process_timeout in DefaultAzureCredential to remain consistent with the other credentials that launch a subprocess to acquire tokens.process_timeout keyword argument. This addresses scenarios where these proceses can take longer than the current default timeout values. The affected credentials are AzureCliCredential, AzureDeveloperCliCredential, and AzurePowerShellCredential. (Note: For DefaultAzureCredential, the developer_credential_timeout keyword argument allows users to propagate this option to AzureCliCredential, AzureDeveloperCliCredential, and AzurePowerShellCredential in the authentication chain.) (#28290)instance_discovery to disable_instance_discovery to make it more explicit.AzureDeveloperCredential for Azure Developer CLI. (#27916)WorkloadIdentityCredential for Workload Identity Federation on Kubernetes (#28536)AZURE_REGIONAL_AUTHORITY_NAME to enable auto detecting the appropriate authority (#526)These changes do not impact the API of stable versions such as 1.12.0. Only code written against a beta version such as 1.12.0b1 may be affected.
validate_authority with instance_discovery. Now instead of setting validate_authority=False to disable authority validation and instance discovery, you need to use instance_discovery=False.AzureCliCredential would return the wrong error message when the Azure CLI was not installed on non-English consoles. (#27965)AzureCliCredential now works even when az prints warnings to stderr. (#26857) (thanks to @micromaomao for the contribution)TokenCachePersistenceOptions weren't propagated when using SharedTokenCacheCredential (#26982)VisualStudioCodeCredential from DefaultAzureCredential token chain by default as SDK
authentication via Visual Studio Code is broken due to
issue #23249. The VisualStudioCodeCredential will be
re-enabled in the DefaultAzureCredential flow once a fix is in place.
Issue #25713 tracks this. In the meantime
Visual Studio Code users can authenticate their development environment using the Azure CLI.1.12.0 release candidate
tenant_id for AzureCliCredential & AzurePowerShellCredential (thanks @tikicoder) (#25207)VisualStudioCodeCredential from DefaultAzureCredential token chain. (#23249)EnvironmentCredential added AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD support for the cert password (#24652)validate_authority support for msal client (#22625)additionally_allowed_tenants to the following credential options to force explicit opt-in behavior for multi-tenant authentication:
AuthorizationCodeCredentialAzureCliCredentialAzurePowerShellCredentialCertificateCredentialClientAssertionCredentialClientSecretCredentialDefaultAzureCredentialOnBehalfOfCredentialUsernamePasswordCredentialVisualStudioCodeCredentialClientAuthenticationError if the requested tenant ID doesn't match the credential's tenant ID, and is not included in additionally_allowed_tenants. Applications must now explicitly add additional tenants to the additionally_allowed_tenants list, or add '*' to list, to enable acquiring tokens from tenants other than the originally specified tenant ID.More information on this change and the consideration behind it can be found here.
tenant_id for AzureCliCredentialVisualStudioCodeCredential from DefaultAzureCredential token chainAZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD support for EnvironmentCredentialvalidate_authority supportAzure-identity is supported on Python 3.7 or later. For more details, please read our page on Azure SDK for Python version support policy.
tenant_id for AzureCliCredential (thanks @tikicoder) (#25207)VisualStudioCodeCredential from DefaultAzureCredential token chain. (#23249)EnvironmentCredential added AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD support for the cert password (#24652)validate_authority support for msal client (#22625)These changes do not impact the API of stable versions such as 1.9.0. Only code written against a beta version such as 1.10.0b1 may be affected.
validate_authority support is not available in 1.10.0.validate_authority support for msal client (#22625)These changes do not impact the API of stable versions such as 1.8.0. Only code written against a beta version such as 1.9.0b1 may be affected.
validate_authority support is not available in 1.9.0.content from msal response. (#23483)resource_id, please use identity_config instead.get_assertion to func for ClientAssertionCredential.validate_authority support for msal client (#22625)resource_id support for user-assigned managed identity (#22329)ClientAssertionCredential support (#22328)Handle injected "tenant_id" and "claims" (#23138)
"tenant_id" argument in get_token() method is only supported by:
AuthorizationCodeCredentialAzureCliCredentialAzurePowerShellCredentialInteractiveBrowserCredentialDeviceCodeCredentialEnvironmentCredentialUsernamePasswordCredentialit is ignored by other types of credentials.
These changes do not impact the API of stable versions such as 1.6.0. Only code written against a beta version such as 1.7.0b1 may be affected.
allow_multitenant_authentication argument has been removed and the default behavior is now as if it were true.
The multitenant authentication feature can be totally disabled by setting the environment variable
AZURE_IDENTITY_DISABLE_MULTITENANTAUTH to True.azure.identity.RegionalAuthority is removed.regional_authority argument is removed for CertificateCredential and ClientSecretCredential.AzureApplicationCredential is removed.client_credential in the ctor of OnBehalfOfCredential is removed. Please use client_secret or client_certificate instead.user_assertion in the ctor of OnBehalfOfCredential a keyword only argument.CertificateCredential accepts certificates in PKCS12 format
(#13540)OnBehalfOfCredential supports the on-behalf-of authentication flow for
accessing resources on behalf of users
(#19308)DefaultAzureCredential allows specifying the client ID of interactive browser via keyword argument interactive_browser_client_id
(#20487)close() to credentials in the
azure.identity namespace. At the end of a with block, or when close()
is called, these credentials close their underlying transport sessions.
(#18798)These changes do not impact the API of stable versions such as 1.6.0. Only code written against a beta version such as 1.7.0b1 may be affected.
AZURE_POD_IDENTITY_TOKEN_URL to AZURE_POD_IDENTITY_AUTHORITY_HOST.
The value should now be a host, for example "http://169.254.169.254" (the
default).azure.identity.aio.AzureApplicationCredential
(#19943)CustomHookPolicy to credential HTTP pipelines. This allows applications
to initialize credentials with raw_request_hook and raw_response_hook
keyword arguments. The value of these arguments should be a callback taking a
PipelineRequest and PipelineResponse, respectively. For example:
ManagedIdentityCredential(raw_request_hook=lambda request: print(request.http_request.url))ChainedTokenCredential and DefaultAzureCredential
logging. On Python 3.7+, credentials invoked by these classes now log debug
rather than info messages.
(#18972)InteractiveBrowserCredential keyword argument login_hint enables
pre-filling the username/email address field on the login page
(#19225)AzureApplicationCredential, a default credential chain for applications
deployed to Azure
(#19309)azure.identity.aio.ManagedIdentityCredential is an async context manager
that closes its underlying transport session at the end of a with blockallow_multitenant_authentication.
(#19300)
allow_multitenant_authentication is False, which is the default, a
credential will raise ClientAuthenticationError when its configured tenant
doesn't match the tenant specified for a token request. This may be a
different exception than was raised by prior versions of the credential. To
maintain the prior behavior, set environment variable
AZURE_IDENTITY_ENABLE_LEGACY_TENANT_SELECTION to "True".CertificateCredential and ClientSecretCredential support regional STS
on Azure VMs by either keyword argument regional_authority or environment
variable AZURE_REGIONAL_AUTHORITY_NAME. See azure.identity.RegionalAuthority
for possible values.
(#19301)azure-core version to 1.11.0 and minimum msal version to
1.12.0ManagedIdentityCredential raises consistent
error messages and uses raise from to propagate inner exceptions
(#19423)Beginning with this release, this library requires Python 2.7 or 3.6+.
VisualStudioCodeCredential gets its default tenant and authority
configuration from VS Code user settings
(#14808)This is the last version to support Python 3.5. The next version will require Python 2.7 or 3.6+.
AzurePowerShellCredential authenticates as the identity logged in to Azure
PowerShell. This credential is part of DefaultAzureCredential by default
but can be disabled by a keyword argument:
DefaultAzureCredential(exclude_powershell_credential=True)
(#17341)AzureCliCredential raises CredentialUnavailableError when the CLI times out,
and kills timed out subprocessesManagedIdentityCredential on Azure VMsThese changes do not impact the API of stable versions such as 1.5.0. Only code written against a beta version such as 1.6.0b1 may be affected.
AuthenticationRequiredError.error_detailsInteractiveBrowserCredential functions in more WSL environments
(#17615)These changes do not impact the API of stable versions such as 1.5.0. Only code written against a beta version such as 1.6.0b1 may be affected.
Renamed CertificateCredential keyword argument certificate_bytes to
certificate_data
Credentials accepting keyword arguments allow_unencrypted_cache and
enable_persistent_cache to configure persistent caching accept a
cache_persistence_options argument instead whose value should be an
instance of TokenCachePersistenceOptions. For example:
# before (e.g. in 1.6.0b1):
DeviceCodeCredential(enable_persistent_cache=True, allow_unencrypted_cache=True)
# after:
cache_options = TokenCachePersistenceOptions(allow_unencrypted_storage=True)
DeviceCodeCredential(cache_persistence_options=cache_options)
See the documentation and samples for more details.
TokenCachePersistenceOptions configures persistent cachingAuthenticationRequiredError.claims property provides any additional
claims required by a user credential's authenticate() methodInteractiveBrowserCredential uses PKCE internally to protect authorization
codesCertificateCredential can load a certificate from bytes instead of a file
path. To provide a certificate as bytes, use the keyword argument
certificate_bytes instead of certificate_path, for example:
CertificateCredential(tenant_id, client_id, certificate_bytes=cert_bytes)
(#14055)ManagedIdentityCredential correctly parses responses from the current
(preview) version of Azure ML managed identity
(#15361)CertificateCredential keyword argument send_certificate
(added in 1.5.0b1) to send_certificate_chainauthenticate method from DeviceCodeCredential,
InteractiveBrowserCredential, and UsernamePasswordCredentialallow_unencrypted_cache and enable_persistent_cache keyword
arguments from CertificateCredential, ClientSecretCredential,
DeviceCodeCredential, InteractiveBrowserCredential, and
UsernamePasswordCredentialdisable_automatic_authentication keyword argument from
DeviceCodeCredential and InteractiveBrowserCredentialallow_unencrypted_cache keyword argument from
SharedTokenCacheCredentialAuthenticationRecord and AuthenticationRequiredErroridentity_config keyword argument from ManagedIdentityCredential
(was added in 1.5.0b1)DeviceCodeCredential parameter client_id is now optional. When not
provided, the credential will authenticate users to an Azure development
application.
(#14354)ValueError when constructed with tenant IDs containing
invalid characters
(#14821)VisualStudioCodeCredential using invalid authentication data when
no user is signed in to Visual Studio Code
(#14438)ManagedIdentityCredential uses the API version supported by Azure Functions
on Linux consumption hosting plans
(#14670)InteractiveBrowserCredential.get_token() raises a clearer error message when
it times out waiting for a user to authenticate on Python 2.7
(#14773)AzureCliCredential.get_token correctly sets token expiration time,
preventing clients from using expired tokens
(#14345)AzureCliCredential.get_token correctly sets token expiration time,
preventing clients from using expired tokens
(#14345)ManagedIdentityCredential supports the latest version of App Service
(#11346)DefaultAzureCredential allows specifying the client ID of a user-assigned
managed identity via keyword argument managed_identity_client_id
(#12991)CertificateCredential supports Subject Name/Issuer authentication when
created with send_certificate=True. The async CertificateCredential
(azure.identity.aio.CertificateCredential) will support this in a
future version.
(#10816)azure.identity support ADFS authorities, excepting
VisualStudioCodeCredential. To configure a credential for this, configure
the credential with authority and tenant_id="adfs" keyword arguments, for
example
ClientSecretCredential(authority="<your ADFS URI>", tenant_id="adfs").
Async credentials (those in azure.identity.aio) will support ADFS in a
future release.
(#12696)InteractiveBrowserCredential keyword argument redirect_uri enables
authentication with a user-specified application having a custom redirect URI
(#13344)authentication_record keyword argument from the async
SharedTokenCacheCredential, i.e. azure.identity.aio.SharedTokenCacheCredentialDefaultAzureCredential uses the value of environment variable
AZURE_CLIENT_ID to configure a user-assigned managed identity.
(#10931)VSCodeCredential to VisualStudioCodeCredentialauthenticate method from DeviceCodeCredential,
InteractiveBrowserCredential, and UsernamePasswordCredentialallow_unencrypted_cache and enable_persistent_cache keyword
arguments from CertificateCredential, ClientSecretCredential,
DeviceCodeCredential, InteractiveBrowserCredential, and
UsernamePasswordCredentialdisable_automatic_authentication keyword argument from
DeviceCodeCredential and InteractiveBrowserCredentialallow_unencrypted_cache keyword argument from
SharedTokenCacheCredentialAuthenticationRecord and AuthenticationRequiredErroridentity_config keyword argument from ManagedIdentityCredentialDefaultAzureCredential has a new optional keyword argument,
visual_studio_code_tenant_id, which sets the tenant the credential should
authenticate in when authenticating as the Azure user signed in to Visual
Studio Code.AuthenticationRecord.deserialize positional parameter json_string
to data.AzureCliCredential no longer raises an exception due to unexpected output
from the CLI when run by PyCharm (thanks @NVolcz)
(#11362)msal version to 1.3.0AzureCliCredential correctly invokes /bin/sh
(#12048)AzureCliCredential on Windows caused by a bug
in old versions of Python 3.6 (this bug was fixed in Python 3.6.5).
(#12014)SharedTokenCacheCredential.get_token raises ValueError instead of
ClientAuthenticationError when called with no scopes.
(#11553)ManagedIdentityCredential can configure a user-assigned identity using any
identifier supported by the current hosting environment. To specify an
identity by its client ID, continue using the client_id argument. To
specify an identity by any other ID, use the identity_config argument,
for example: ManagedIdentityCredential(identity_config={"object_id": ".."})
(#10989)CertificateCredential and ClientSecretCredential can optionally store
access tokens they acquire in a persistent cache. To enable this, construct
the credential with enable_persistent_cache=True. On Linux, the persistent
cache requires libsecret and pygobject. If these are unavailable or
unusable (e.g. in an SSH session), loading the persistent cache will raise an
error. You may optionally configure the credential to fall back to an
unencrypted cache by constructing it with keyword argument
allow_unencrypted_cache=True.
(#11347)AzureCliCredential raises CredentialUnavailableError when no user is
logged in to the Azure CLI.
(#11819)AzureCliCredential and VSCodeCredential, which enable authenticating as
the identity signed in to the Azure CLI and Visual Studio Code, respectively,
can be imported from azure.identity and azure.identity.aio.azure.identity.aio.AuthorizationCodeCredential.get_token() no longer accepts
optional keyword arguments executor or loop. Prior versions of the method
didn't use these correctly, provoking exceptions, and internal changes in this
version have made them obsolete.InteractiveBrowserCredential raises CredentialUnavailableError when it
can't start an HTTP server on localhost.
(#11665)DefaultAzureCredential, you can now configure a tenant ID
for InteractiveBrowserCredential. When none is specified, the credential
authenticates users in their home tenants. To specify a different tenant, use
the keyword argument interactive_browser_tenant_id, or set the environment
variable AZURE_TENANT_ID.
(#11548)SharedTokenCacheCredential can be initialized with an AuthenticationRecord
provided by a user credential.
(#11448)DeviceCodeCredential and
InteractiveBrowserCredential in 1.4.0b3 is available on
UsernamePasswordCredential as well.
(#11449)DeviceCodeCredential and
InteractiveBrowserCredential added in 1.4.0b3 is now available on Linux and
macOS as well as Windows.
(#11134)
pygobject. If these
are unavailable, or libsecret is unusable (e.g. in an SSH session), loading
the persistent cache will raise an error. You may optionally configure the
credential to fall back to an unencrypted cache by constructing it with
keyword argument allow_unencrypted_cache=True.EnvironmentCredential correctly initializes UsernamePasswordCredential
with the value of AZURE_TENANT_ID
(#11127)authority and
AZURE_AUTHORITY_HOST may optionally specify an "https" scheme. For example,
"https://login.microsoftonline.us" and "login.microsoftonline.us" are both valid.
(#10819)DeviceCodeCredential
and InteractiveBrowserCredential
(#10612)
authenticate interactively authenticates a user, returns a
serializable AuthenticationRecordauthentication_record enables initializing a credential with an
AuthenticationRecord from a prior authenticationdisable_automatic_authentication=True configures the credential to raise
AuthenticationRequiredError when interactive authentication is necessary
to acquire a token rather than immediately begin that authenticationenable_persistent_cache=True configures these credentials to use a
persistent cache on supported platforms (in this release, Windows only).
By default they cache in memory only.DefaultAzureCredential can authenticate with the identity signed in to
Visual Studio Code's Azure extension.
(#10472)DefaultAzureCredential successfully authenticates, it
uses the same authentication method for every subsequent token request. This
makes subsequent requests more efficient, and prevents unexpected changes of
authentication method.
(#10349)get_token methods consistently require at least one scope argument,
raising an error when none is passed. Although get_token() may sometimes
have succeeded in prior versions, it couldn't do so consistently because its
behavior was undefined, and dependened on the credential's type and internal
state. (#10243)SharedTokenCacheCredential raises CredentialUnavailableError when the
cache is available but contains ambiguous or insufficient information. This
causes ChainedTokenCredential to correctly try the next credential in the
chain. (#10631)AZURE_AUTHORITY_HOST. See
azure.identity.KnownAuthorities for a list of common values.
(#8094)ManagedIdentityCredential raises CredentialUnavailableError when no
identity is configured for an IMDS endpoint. This causes
ChainedTokenCredential to correctly try the next credential in the chain.
(#10488)DefaultAzureCredential can now authenticate using the identity logged in to
the Azure CLI, unless explicitly disabled with a keyword argument:
DefaultAzureCredential(exclude_cli_credential=True)
(#10092)CredentialUnavailableError when they can't attempt to
authenticate due to missing data or state
(#9372)CertificateCredential supports password-protected private keys
(#9434)ProxyPolicy
(#8945)close method
(#9090)DefaultAzureCredential no longer raises ImportError on Python
3.8 on Windows (8294)InteractiveBrowserCredential raises when unable to open a web browser
(8465)InteractiveBrowserCredential prompts for account selection
(8470)DefaultAzureCredential are configurable by keyword
arguments (8514)SharedTokenCacheCredential accepts an optional tenant_id keyword argument
(8689)ClientCertificateCredential uses application and tenant IDs correctly
(8315)InteractiveBrowserCredential properly caches tokens
(8352)aiohttp
for transport but the library does not require it as a dependency because the
async API is optional. To use async credentials, please install
aiohttp or see
azure-core documentation
for information about customizing the transport.ClientSecretCredential parameter "secret" to "client_secret"tenant_id and client_id positional parameters now accept them in that orderInteractiveBrowserCredential parameters
client_id is now an optional keyword argument. If no value is provided,
the Azure CLI's client ID will be used.tenant renamed tenant_idDeviceCodeCredential
prompt_callback is now a keyword argumentprompt_callback's third argument is now a datetime representing the
expiration time of the device codetenant renamed tenant_idManagedIdentityCredential
client_idazure-core documentationDefaultAzureCredential accepts an authority keyword argument, enabling
its use in national clouds
(#8154)msal_extensions 0.1.2msal requirement to >=0.4.1,
<1.0.0AuthorizationCodeCredential authenticates with a previously obtained
authorization code. See Microsoft Entra's
authorization code documentation
for more information about this authentication flow.authority keyword argument. Known
authorities are defined in azure.identity.KnownAuthorities. The default
authority is for Azure Public Cloud, login.microsoftonline.com
(KnownAuthorities.AZURE_PUBLIC_CLOUD). An application running in Azure
Government would use KnownAuthorities.AZURE_GOVERNMENT instead:from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential, KnownAuthorities credential = DefaultAzureCredential(authority=KnownAuthorities.AZURE_GOVERNMENT)
client_secret parameter from InteractiveBrowserCredentialUsernamePasswordCredential correctly handles environment configuration with
no tenant information (#7260)SharedTokenCacheCredential authenticates with tokens stored in a local
cache shared by Microsoft applications. This enables Azure SDK clients to
authenticate silently after you've signed in to Visual Studio 2019, for
example. DefaultAzureCredential includes SharedTokenCacheCredential when
the shared cache is available, and environment variable AZURE_USERNAME
is set. See the
README
for more information.msal-extensions
0.1.1azure.core.Configuration from the public API in preparation for a
revamped configuration API. Static create_config methods have been renamed
_create_config, and will be removed in a future release.pip install azure-core==1.0.0b1 azure-identity==1.0.0b1DeviceCodeCredentialInteractiveBrowserCredentialUsernamePasswordCredentialVersion 1.0.0b1 is the first preview of our efforts to create a user-friendly and Pythonic authentication API for Azure SDK client libraries. For more information about preview releases of other Azure SDK libraries, please visit https://aka.ms/azure-sdk-preview1-python.
This release supports service principal and managed identity authentication. See the documentation for more details. User authentication will be added in an upcoming preview release.
This release supports only global Microsoft Entra tenants, i.e. those using the https://login.microsoftonline.com authentication endpoint.
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