Support MSI (like EC2 roles) authentication when using a remote backend?

[bfleming-ciena]

I'm using an Azure server as my terraform control machine, to do my deployments. MSI solves the authentication issue of running terraform, but I can't init the remote backend file unless I provide an explicit storage key.

Is there a way to authenticate via MSI for terraform init when using a remote backend?

[tombuildsstuff]

This wasn't resolved by #19414, so I'm going to reopen this for the moment - but this will be in an upcoming PR in the near future

[tombuildsstuff]

Update: support for authenticating via MSI has been added in #19433 :)

[tombuildsstuff]

Closing since support for authenticating using Managed Service Identity has been added in #19433

[ghost]

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