Externalizing user accounts, what is he thinking? In this post I’ll explain why every company should consider externalizing their user account management from their applications.

Ever since Microsoft created managed identities, people are asking how/if they work for multi-tenant applications. They even spend a faq on it.

Previously you had to go through some hoops to use managed identities with your multi tenant app.

Let’s have a look if we can solve this with in combination with federated credentials.

Workflow identity federation of “federated credentials” as they are called in the Azure Portal are brand new in the Microsoft identity suite. As of writing they are still in preview.

What are they and how does it work? This will all be explained in the post below.

GitHub Actions allow you to run some program every time an event (or trigger) happens in GitHub. You can respond to a new PR, a new issue or even periodically run some job. There are thousands of little actions you can use in your own workflow.