Azure Automation support for system-assigned managed identities is now in public preview
Published date: 14 April, 2021
Azure Automation now supports system-assigned managed identities for cloud and hybrid jobs in Azure public and Gov regions. Hybrid jobs could be running on an hybrid runbook worker running on an Azure or non-Azure VM.
A managed identity from Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) allows your runbook to easily access other Azure AD-protected resources. The identity is managed by the Azure platform and users don’t have to manage service principals on their own.
Some of the benefits of using managed identities:
- You can use managed identities to authenticate to any Azure service that supports Azure AD authentication.
- Managed identities eliminate the management overhead associated with managing a RunAs account in your runbook code. The end user can access resources via a managed identity of an Automation account from a runbook, without worrying about creating the service principal, RunAsCertificate, RunAsConnection etc.
- You don’t have to renew the certificate used by the Automation Run As account.
Learn more about Automation managed identities support.