This feature is available to Azure AD-backed organizations only. What are service principals and managed identities? There is a time and place for when PATs make sense but for many applications out there, we welcome you to explore service principals and managed identities instead. (Remember to always secure your secrets in a key management solution, like Azure Key Vault!) This leaked PAT can then be used to wreak havoc for the remaining duration of the PAT’s lifetime, or until revoked. When a user leaves the company, the PAT driving the team application will become inaccessible to all other team members.Īdditionally, PATs are bearer tokens, which can be leaked easily and fall into the wrong hands. However, using an authentication method tied to a single person also means relying on a single point-of-failure. Teams have traditionally relied on PATs to power applications, services, and automation tools to access organizational resources. Service principals and managed identities provide an exciting new alternative to personal access tokens (PATs), one of our most widely used authentication methods that is tied to the user that created the token. For those who have not heard of them before, these Azure Active Directory identities enable teams to gain access to your Azure DevOps organizations acting as their own application, not as a human user or service account. We are proud to announce that Service Principals and Managed Identities can now be used to authenticate with Azure DevOps.
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