AzurePipelinesCredential Class

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://learn.microsoft.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.
get_token_info	Request an access token for scopes. This is an alternative to get_token to enable certain scenarios that require additional properties on the token. 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://learn.microsoft.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.

get_token_info

Request an access token for scopes.

This is an alternative to get_token to enable certain scenarios that require additional properties on the token. This method is called automatically by Azure SDK clients.

get_token_info(*scopes: str, options: TokenRequestOptions | None = None) -> AccessTokenInfo

Parameters

Name	Description
scopes Required	str desired scope for the access token. This method requires at least one scope. For more information about scopes, see https://learn.microsoft.com/entra/identity-platform/scopes-oidc.

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name	Description
options	TokenRequestOptions A dictionary of options for the token request. Unknown options will be ignored. Optional.

Returns

Type	Description
<xref:AccessTokenInfo>	An AccessTokenInfo instance containing information about the token.

Exceptions

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