Authenticating Azure Deployments in GitHub Actions with Microsoft Entra ID Workload Identities 💪

Deployment workflows need to communicate with Azure so that they can create and configure your Azure resources. In this video, I talk about what workload identities are in Microsoft Entra ID, how we can create them, and how we can use them to authenticate to Azure in our GitHub Actions workflows.
0:00 What are Workload Identities in Microsoft Entra ID?
2:51 Creating our workload identity
6:48 Grant our workload identity access to our Azure environment
9:59 Using our workload identity in our GitHub Actions workflow file
12:32 Wrap up
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Thanks Will for this. Would this be similar if you are deploying from Azure Pipelines or Gitlab Pipelines with regards to the Workload Identity? Thanks.