How do you use service-to-service authentication for local development to Azure Key Vault using Java?

Question

There are lots of questions and articles on how to do this with .NET, but how/is it possible to easily authenticate for local development through Azure AD shared secret credential using Java (Spring Boot specifically)?

For .NET, it is as easy as specifying the RunAs=CurrentUser property in the connection string to connect to the Azure Key Vault (per this article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/key-vault/service-to-service-authentication), connecting automatically (assuming my account is listed in the access policy for the key vault I want to access). Ideally, I would not want to use a thousand Java dependencies to do this, I could manually obtain a token to authenticate, but it would be nice to save developers the hassle of having to manually obtain a token from Azure every time we wanted to test things for local development.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Here is an example os using MSICredentials Read Azure key vault secret through MSI in Java Just try using the AzureCliCredentials instead https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-java/com/microsoft/azure/credentials/AzureCliCredentials.html