Create an Amazing Dev-time Credential Experience for Azure.Identity

[joshfree]

Tracking issue for feature work specific to Developer-time Azure.Identity Credential Experience

• Bring back file based auth for Management Plane: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/azure/dotnet-sdk-azure-authenticate?view=azure-dotnet#mgmt-auth AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION (see Support AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION azure-sdk-for-net#9312) (@ellismg driving design requirements)

• Add Support for writing back to the SharedTokenCache (@schaabs driving design requirements)

• Add Linux and Mac SharedTokenCache Support (@jianghaolu driving design requirements)

• Improve DefaultAzureCredential/ChainedTokenCredential - e.g., tell me what Credential I'm using for dev debug scenarios (@catalinaperalta driving design requirements)

• Have ManagedIdentityCredential utilize the AZURE_CLIENT_ID environment variable. To allow user assigned identities to utilize DefaultAzureCredential (@jongio driving implementation with vendor team)

• Have TokenCredentialOptions utilize AZURE_AUTHORITY_HOST environment variable. To allow other clouds to use DefaultAzureCredential. (@jongio driving implementation with vendor team) (Add EnvVar AZURE_AUTHORITY_HOST #10357)

• CliCredentials / Better support for dev creds: CLI, PSH, VS, VS CODE, VS ONLINE, CLOUD SHELL

  • devCredentials (@schaabs driving design requirements)
  • CliCredential (@jongio driving implementation with vendor team)

[joshfree]

Closing as we've completed all intended dev-time credential improvements for the upcoming Identity GA