Any plans for Managed Identity authentication for Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.StackExchangeRedis?

[arealmaas]

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I am using IDistributedCache, and I want to use Redis as backing. Using the following library and guide it seems like we need to pass a connection string. We want to be able to use Managed Identity towards all our Azure services.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/performance/caching/distributed?view=aspnetcore-8.0#distributed-redis-cache

Describe the solution you'd like

Being able to authenticate to Redis using Managed Identity like we can for this package: https://github.com/Azure/Microsoft.Azure.StackExchangeRedis. Are there any plans on implementing Managed Identity for this?

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[mkArtakMSFT]

Thanks for contacting us. This doesn't seem to be something worth implementing in the framework layer.

[halter73]

You could ask for https://github.com/Azure/Microsoft.Azure.StackExchangeRedis to implement IDistributedCache, or you could take the IConnectionMultiplexer you get from managed identity authentication with Microsoft.Azure.StackExchangeRedis, and return it from a custom ConnectionMultiplexerFactory.

[arealmaas]

Thanks for the suggestion @halter73 . I'll test it out

[A-Stapleton]

This would be nice to get support for MI in this. It's a big gap in dev experience from a using Microsoft products all up perspective.

They said they won't do IDistributedCache Azure/Microsoft.Azure.StackExchangeRedis#12 (comment)

[RichFinn-WTW]

This would be nice to get support for MI in this. It's a big gap in dev experience from a using Microsoft products all up perspective.

They said they won't do IDistributedCache Azure/Microsoft.Azure.StackExchangeRedis#12 (comment)

@arealmaas @A-Stapleton - we were able to get Microsoft.Azure.StackExchangeRedis working with Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.StackExchangeRedis and MI

check out this comment: Azure/Microsoft.Azure.StackExchangeRedis#12 (comment)

[bhargav-kansagara]

Sample on how to use MSI with IDistributedCache, just add the following in startup:

services.AddStackExchangeRedisCache(options` =>
{
    options.ConfigurationOptions = new ConfigurationOptions
        {
            EndPoints = { "endpoint" },
        };

    options.ConnectionMultiplexerFactory = async () =>
    {
        await options.ConfigurationOptions.ConfigureForAzureWithTokenCredentialAsync(new DefaultAzureCredential()).ConfigureAwait(false);
        return await ConnectionMultiplexer.ConnectAsync(options.ConfigurationOptions).ConfigureAwait(false);
    };
});