Taking a look under the hood of the Linux VM Authentication

Introduction

Today we’ll do a deep-dive into how you can log into an Azure Linux VM with Azure Active Directory (AAD). In essence, we’ll go through the following documentation flow, and then take a look how that looks under the hood.

 

Part one : “Creation”

The part on creating & integrating the VM is VERY straightforward…

• Create a resource group
  
• Create a Linux virtual machine
  
• Add the “Azure AD login VM”-extension
  

And that’s it! Really, that’s it…