Microsoft allows use of the Authentication command in Azure SQL to connect to the database using an Azure AD account.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-aad-authentication/
Under heading 7.1. Connecting using integrated (Windows) authentication
How can I use this on an Azure App Service?
Note: I am specifically trying NOT to include the password as the next heading shows. I specifically want integrated.
If my understanding of the documentation is correct, you can achieve this yourself using Token Based authentication. It shouldn't require anything special from Azure App Service. See here for details and sample code:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlsecurity/2016/02/09/token-based-authentication-support-for-azure-sql-db-using-azure-ad-auth/
The new token-based authentication method allows middle-tier services to obtain a token from Azure AD and use it to connect to Azure SQL Database.
Azure App Service machines are not part of your domain, so this isn't going to work. This was designed to let domain joined clients connect to SQL.
SQL Username/password is the only option left.
Update: see Chris Post about the new token based features
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I am following this post and I have added Azure AD User to my Azure PostgreSQL. When I use admin user I can connect to the server but when I change to use Azure AD-based authentication, it always got error Token get failed .... I think I'm lost, please help me. Thanks in advance.
Not sure about the reason because you didn't provide details about how you configure the AAD-based authentication.
But there is a new, simpler way to sign-in with AAD account.
Please refer to New, simpler way to sign-in to Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Single Server using Azure AD.
You just need to configure the Azure AD Administrator in the Azure Portal.
Remember that when you try to sign in in Azure Data Studio, you need to specify the username as AADuser#{your AAD domain}.com#{PostgreSQL server name}
I have been trying to find out some nodejs code in order to connect from my nodeJs application to Azure SQL db via Azure AD authentication. But this will involve only my email Id. I don't have any Azure AD app as this will be from an email ID. I usually login onto my Azure SQL DB using my email Id and choosing the option 'Azure Active Directory-Universal with MFA' from MSSMS. Is there any way that we can replicate this from Code in NodeJs
If you want to Use Azure Active Directory authentication for your Azure SQL database, you must configure Azure AD for it.
Please ref this tutorial: Configure and manage Azure AD authentication with Azure SQL
SSMS and SqlPackage.exe are the only tools currently enabled for MFA through Active Directory Universal Authentication.
For your question "Is there any way that we can replicate this from Code in NodeJs", the answer is no, there isn't. Node.js only support these types:
authentication.type
Type of the authentication method, valid types are default, ntlm,
azure-active-directory-password, azure-active-directory-access-token,
azure-active-directory-msi-vm, or azure-active-directory-msi-app-service
Ref: https://tediousjs.github.io/tedious/api-connection.html
HTH.
I am designing an application that will consist of:
SPA written in React, deployed to an instance of Azure App Service
REST API written in .Net Core Web API, deployed to another instance of Azure App Service
Azure SQL Database in the same Azure tenant as the app services above
All these resources will be connected to the same instance of Azure AD (also in the same tenant).
Conceptually, I suppose the authentication could work roughly like this:
The user connection to the SPA and obtains an auth token
The token would then be passed to the API and then the API will use that token to authenticate the user to the SQL Database (this seems possible)
However, I have not been able to find any walkthroughs or other documentation that would demonstrate this seemingly straightforward way of implementing authentication. Seems like this is a typical enough scenario for it to be widely documented by bloggers or Microsoft itself, so not being able to find it makes me wonder if I am not thinking about this right, or maybe I am not looking in the right places.
Can someone please help me figure out what is the right way to approach this and point me to some online resources that could guide me through this?
Thank you!
It's much more common for the REST API to use its Managed Service Identity to obtain a token for Azure SQL Database, and use that. It's always been rare for web apps to use the browser user's identity to connect to SQL Server.
See, eg: Tutorial: Secure Azure SQL Database connection from App Service using a managed identity
Is it possible for applications to connect with azure ad authentication instead of connection string key.
As of today, the answer is no. You would need account name/key to connect an application to Cosmos DB. Azure AD based authentication is not supported as of today.
Currently it is supporting two approaches:
Master Key based
Resource token based
Currently we can't do the Azure AD based authentication.
We have easily sent up our AD with Azure SQL which now we can login and run queries, etc... with SSMS. Now we would like to set our apps in Azure App Services to run as an AD user. This would be to mimic IIS apps using an application pool that's is running as an AD user. I have not found a clear blog or step by step guide on how to do this. any help would be greatly appreciated.
UPDATE:
This is specifically to be able to connect to the database using AD Credentials and not using SQL Credentials.
Azure Active Directory authentication for SQL Database or SQL Data Warehouse supports the following methods of connecting to a database using Azure AD identities( refer here):
Using integrated Windows authentication
Using an Azure AD principal name and a password
Using Application token authentication
And the scenario you mentioned is not support. We can create an application in Azure AD and using the token authentication for this scenario. More detail about Azure AD authentication, you can refer the link below:
Configure and manage Azure Active Directory authentication with SQL Database or SQL Data Warehouse- Azure AD token
In addition, if you have any idea or feedback about Azure SQL database, you can submit them from here.