Managed Identities in Azure with Terraform

In this article, I’ll explain the concepts around Managed Identities in Azure, the different types of managed identities, and how to assign them to a VM. Then we will show how to authenticate Terraform to Azure using the managed identity. Lastly, we will configure an Application Gateway to use a managed identity in order to access secrets in an Azure Key Vault.

What is a managed identity?

Managed identities provide an identity for applications to use when connecting to resources that support Azure Active Directory…