
The Plain and Simple Way to Create SPN and Service Connection for Azure DevOps Pipelines
The Plain and Simple Way to Create SPN and Service Connection for Azure DevOps Pipelines If you are getting started with Azure DevOps Pipeline for Application Deployment in Azure, you need two basic things for your Azure Pipeline to Authenticate and deploy to Azure. One — a Service Principal Name (SPN) in Azure and a Service Connection in Azure DevOps. In this article, I’m going to show you how to quickly create SPN in Azure Portal and a Service Connection in Azure DevOps. Background — Azure SPN and DevOps Service Connection TL; DR: You can skip this section if you just want HOW TO guide. Just jump to Creating an Application Registration and SPN in the Azure Portal section to get started. For simplicity, think of SPN as a service account in Azure Active…