AzurePipelinesCredential Class

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Authenticates using Microsoft Entra Workload ID in Azure Pipelines.

This credential enables authentication in Azure Pipelines using workload identity federation for Azure service connections.

Inheritance
builtins.object
AzurePipelinesCredential

Constructor

AzurePipelinesCredential(*, tenant_id: str, client_id: str, service_connection_id: str, system_access_token: str, **kwargs: Any)

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name Description
tenant_id
str

The tenant ID for the service connection. Required.
client_id
str

The client ID for the service connection. Required.
service_connection_id
str

The service connection ID for the service connection associated with the pipeline. From the service connection's configuration page URL in the Azure DevOps web portal, the ID is the value of the "resourceId" query parameter. Required.
system_access_token
str

The pipeline's System.AccessToken value. It is recommended to assign the value of System.AccessToken to a secure variable in the Azure Pipelines environment. See https://video2.skills-academy.com/azure/devops/pipelines/build/variables#systemaccesstoken for more info. Required.
authority
str

Authority of a Microsoft Entra endpoint, for example "login.microsoftonline.com", the authority for Azure Public Cloud (which is the default). AzureAuthorityHosts defines authorities for other clouds.
additionally_allowed_tenants
List[str]

Specifies tenants in addition to the specified "tenant_id" for which the credential may acquire tokens. Add the wildcard value "*" to allow the credential to acquire tokens for any tenant the application can access.

Examples

Create an AzurePipelinesCredential.


   import os
   from azure.identity import AzurePipelinesCredential

   credential = AzurePipelinesCredential(
       system_access_token=os.environ["SYSTEM_ACCESSTOKEN"],
       tenant_id="<tenant_id>",
       client_id="<client_id>",
       service_connection_id="<service_connection_id>",
   )

Methods

close

Close the credential's transport session.
get_token

Request an access token for scopes.

This method is called automatically by Azure SDK clients.

close

Close the credential's transport session.

close() -> None

get_token

Request an access token for scopes.

This method is called automatically by Azure SDK clients.

get_token(*scopes: str, claims: str | None = None, tenant_id: str | None = None, enable_cae: bool = False, **kwargs: Any) -> AccessToken

Parameters

Name Description
scopes
Required
str

desired scopes for the access token. This method requires at least one scope. For more information about scopes, see https://video2.skills-academy.com/entra/identity-platform/scopes-oidc.

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name Description
claims
str

additional claims required in the token, such as those returned in a resource provider's claims challenge following an authorization failure.
tenant_id
str

optional tenant to include in the token request.
enable_cae
bool

indicates whether to enable Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) for the requested token. Defaults to False.

Returns

Type Description
AccessToken

An access token with the desired scopes.

Exceptions

Type Description
CredentialUnavailableError

the credential is unable to attempt authentication because it lacks required data, state, or platform support
ClientAuthenticationError

authentication failed. The error's message attribute gives a reason.