Azure DevOps Service Connection without secrets

I will show you a new way to create service connections between Azure DevOps and Azure using fedaration. You don't need secrets anymore and still get a secure connection for deploying using your pipelines.
This is a follow up for my video "Azure DevOps: Azure RM Service Connections deep dive" • Azure DevOps: Azure RM... .
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:26 Current Service Connection
00:03:08 Federated Service Connection
00:12:00 Summary

[@michaelsedy9662]

Hi! Thanks for the video.
Why is it better to use the manual version? I didnt understand that. 🙂

[@real-codingfreaks]

If you use the automatic one it'll create an SP and the password for you. When this SP is expired you have no chance but to delete the service connection and create a new one. This sucks. Ususally you should create SPs in Entra ID using a defined process which has nothing to do with DevOps. Then you simply enter those pre-defined SPs into DevOps.

[@michaelsedy9662]

@@real-codingfreaks Is this also true for workload identity federation??

[@real-codingfreaks]

@@michaelsedy9662 no. This is even newer and lives without secrets. Problem i have with this is that ADO is in charge here too because its tideous to create those SPs by yourself.