With 3.0.0 support of user -> Azure Managed Identity support for Redis?

[GMacAussie]

Per title, we are looking to move to Azure Managed Identities and are investigating support by CacheManager. I think this is the case but I am unsure how the IConnectionMultiplexer -> Connection string works.

So with the 3.0.0 release adding support for the user option does that mean that if we pass an IConnectionMultiplexer created with the StackExchange.Redis.ConfigurationOptions object that is hammered with the ConfigureForAzureWithTokenCredentialAsync() call we should be good?

Of course it might be also (transparently) supported in 2.0.0 due to the Redis Connection string conversion?

Thanks for keeping the library up to date!

[GMacAussie]

Update: I guess the nub of the matter is how the token is refreshed given the IConnectionMultiplexer -> Connection string -> IConnectionMultiplexer process - there seems to be some bookkeeping done by ConfigureForAzureWithTokenCredentialAsync() to keep the token refreshed which might be lost?

[MichaConrad]

You can pass in a configured ConnectionMultiplexer if you need anything this abstraction cannot configure already.
I don't really think that kind of configuration has anything todo with CacheManager
(I haven't looked into it, so this is just guessing, let me know if I'm wrong ;) )

[GMacAussie]

Thanks for the reply Michael.

Looking at CacheManager, it seems you use the Connection string from the passed ConnectionMultiplexer as a key, but you keep the ConnectionMultiplexer object for actual connections and Redis use (vs. creating another mux from that connection string). This passed mux will keep the password maintained on token expiry (token == Password).

Given that is the case, I think this will be good to go. If however another mux was created from that derived connection string and used instead then that would break (from my understanding of what is happening under the covers of the mux).

Thanks again!

[MichaConrad]

No, if you pas in a mux, the library will not instantiate its own.

[GMacAussie]

Cool thank you!