In the last post, we connected a local Kubernetes cluster to Azure using Azure Arc so that we could manage it from the Azure portal.

Which is cool, but if all we do is stare at our cluster from Azure, we are missing the fun part.

What I really want from this setup is the ability to run workloads locally that can authenticate to Azure resources in the same way they would in a “real” environment, without me having to stuff secrets into config files or pass credentials around by hand.