Feature Request : Azure - Support managed identity in non-VM environments

[aswinrajamannar]

Today Packer supports specifying certificate-based bearer JWT assertion through client_jwt parameter, or automatically getting it from the IMDS endpoint available for IaaS VMs. But in scenarios like App Service Web Jobs, neither of these are an option.

In App Service for instance, there is a REST endpoint to get the token which is different from the IMDS endpoint.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/overview-managed-identity#using-the-rest-protocol

Ability to either specify the exact access token to use, or to use the REST protocol specified above would help to run Packer in these environments.

[ghost]

This issue has been automatically migrated to hashicorp/packer-plugin-azure#16 because it looks like an issue with that plugin. If you believe this is not an issue with the plugin, please reply to hashicorp/packer-plugin-azure#16.