Introduction
Introducing a credential support for federated token authorization on Azure Pipelines in Azure SDK for Identity.
As a user, one should be able to use Azure Services from an Azure Pipeline task without using secrets. The Azure Pipelines provides a workload federation identity support for this through ARM Service Connections. This credential is designed to explicitly support this scenario for Azure Pipelines.
Read up on details on how federation identity is enabled for Service Connections - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/public-preview-of-workload-identity-federation-for-azure-pipelines/