Azure Active Directory (AAD)

Federate with any external identity provider: Azure AD workload identity authentication method replaces pod-managed identity, which integrates with the Kubernetes native capabilities to federate with any external identity providers on behalf of the application.

Key Features

Use Azure Active Directory pod-managed identities in Azure Kubernetes Service.
A maximum of 200 pod-managed identities are allowed for a cluster.
Pod-managed identities are available on Linux node pools only.

Components

azure-assigned-identity

azure-identity

azure-identity-binding

azure-pod-identity-exception