Sonar Cloud Azure DevOps Authentication with Service Principal

[msoltani (Mehrdad Soltani)]

I am interested to know whether there are initiatives to integrate azure service principal/managed identity authentication mechanism instead of PAT token for sonar cloud projects.

The same question was asked around 2022, but Azure DevOps had no support for this back then.

Coneect sonarcloud to Azure DevOps with an application service princible account

How can we change so that the connection from sonarcloud to our Azure Devops is not used by normal account (PAT token) but as and application service princible acccount ? By using the PAT token we could be in trouble if the person who has setup the connection leaves the company.

Just recently, [Microsoft announced that this feature has been implemented and is the recommended way of authentication]( Use service principals & managed identities - Azure DevOps | Microsoft Learn)

[Ilham (Ilham Mayou)]

Hello Mehrdad,

Thank you for your insight.

We are aware of the Microsoft recommendation to use Azure Service Principals instead of Azure Personal Access Tokens. It is something we would like to implement not only for Azure but also for the other devOps if the functionality is available. However, this is not yet part of the roadmap. We will update our roadmap page accordingly once this is planned. Thank you.