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Using managed identities

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- [Instructor] In this lecture, we're going to look at something called managed identities. So managed identities are a way that we can secure access to resources in Azure using service accounts that are built into the services themselves. And that means we don't have to necessarily configure or store those credentials anywhere in a configuration file. Let's walk through an example to see what we mean by this. So I've currently got a web app here and it's running a number of different options. And one of them is is it wants to read an image using a managed identity. Now this image itself is stored in a container, and this container is in a folder that has got anonymous access level set to private. So this basically means that I cannot directly go to that image and access it. If I go to the folder itself, we can see that actually it's telling me I'm not authorized, and that's because my own account doesn't have access to read those files. So what we need to do is grant that access to…

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