Guidance for Microsoft Entra workload identities — managed identities, service principals, and workload identity federation. Covers system-assigned vs user-assigned managed identity, federated credentials (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, other OIDC issuers) to eliminate secrets, Workload Identities Premium (Conditional Access for workloads, risk detection, lifecycle reviews), credential hygiene (no client secrets where federation works), least-privilege RBAC, and integration with Defender for Cloud / Microsoft Entra Permissions Management. WHEN: managed identity, system-assigned identity, user-assigned identity, service principal hardening, workload identity federation, GitHub OIDC to Azure, Azure DevOps OIDC, AKS workload identity, kill client secrets, federated credential, Workload Identities Premium, Conditional Access for workloads, non-human identity governance, NHI, app registration hardening. DO NOT USE for user/human identity (use entra-id), permissions discovery across clouds (use entra-permissions-management), or end-to-end NHI governance (use agent-identity-governance).
$npx -y skills add vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills --skill entra-workload-identityInstalls into the current project.
Run `npx skills use "https://github.com/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills" --skill "vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/entra-workload-identity"` and follow the generated skill instructions now. Read its complete output, redirecting it to a temporary file first if necessary. Resolve relative paths from the supporting-files directory it provides.
Use the skills in "https://github.com/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills" that are relevant to the current task. Run `npx skills add "https://github.com/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills"` and select the relevant skills, then follow their instructions.