With the introduction of Managed Identities came many security options. Among other things, manual credential management is no longer necessary, this is taken over by Azure.
Different scripts are often required for matters such as operation, provisioning, housekeeping, etc., which need to authenticate and communicate with different API’s in a secury way. Usually, this requires a service principal (Azure AD app registration) secured by a secret or certificate, which in turn should be stored securely and rotated regularly.
