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The Hoff
The Hoff

Reputation: 964

What is the difference between credentials and certificates in an Azure Automation Account

Under the Automation Account section in Azure there seems to be two sections dedicated to authentication. Credentials and Certificates, what are the different applications here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 574

Answers (1)

Jason Ye
Jason Ye

Reputation: 13954

An Automation credential asset holds a PSCredential object which contains security credentials such as a username and password.Runbooks and DSC configurations may use cmdlets that accept a PSCredential object for authentication, or they may extract the username and password of the PSCredential object to provide to some application or service requiring authentication. The properties for a credential are stored securely in Azure Automation and can be accessed in the runbook or DSC configuration with the Get-AutomationPSCredential activity.

An Automation Certificate assets store Certificates, so they can be accessed by runbooks or DSC configurations using the Get-AzureRmAutomationCertificate activity for Azure Resource Manager resources. This allows you to create runbooks and DSC configurations that use certificates for authentication or adds them to Azure or third-party resources.

More information about Credential assets and Certificate assets, please refer to those links.

Upvotes: 1

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