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Can I use Azure managed identity to access online endpoints without authentication keys?
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Mummineni, Deeptavarna
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I'm trying to create an inference endpoint and in order to access the REST endpoint I'm required to provide keys. I'm hoping to know if there's a way I can avoid this using managed identities. I know they work between services and datastores but is there a way it extends to this?
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VasaviLankipalle-MSFT 15,941 Reputation points2023-11-10T18:51:04.8133333+00:00 Hello @Mummineni, Deeptavarna , Thanks for using Microsoft Q&A Platform.
As we know Azure Managed Identity is a feature that provides Azure services with an automatically managed identity in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
Managed online endpoints can use a managed identity to access Azure resources when performing inference. For more information, see Access Azure resources from an online endpoint
https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/how-to-identity-based-service-authentication?view=azureml-api-2&tabs=python -
Mummineni, Deeptavarna 0 Reputation points
2023-11-10T20:52:28.77+00:00 Hi @VasaviLankipalle-MSFT thank you for pointing out the resource. I was thinking more towards accessing the endpoint through HTTP POST or GET requests for which 'key' or 'aml_tokens' are required. I was wondering if this can instead be substituted with managed identities.
Endpoints need "key" to be accessed. Since this will appear in code while making requests I was wondering if I can use managed identities instead. Thanks again for the help
endpoint = ManagedOnlineEndpoint(name=endpoint_name, auth_mode="key")
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