This is a long overdue post (previous one here ) on how to use certificates to do an automated login to A zure R esource M anager. Not rocket science but easy to setup, so that you use a cert to authenticate to Azure RM automatically. It seems the Azure docs are already up to date on how to do few bits involved in this, please read the section ' Create service principal with a certificate ' in the docs. The process is almost the same as mentioned in the docs, except the fact that when we do the role assignment, we instead assign the contributor role definition to the service principal, since we want the ability to manage the resources in Azure RM. Also, we will author a function add it to our profile so that PowerShell authenticates automatically to Azure RM each time it opens. So let's begin with it: Create the self-signed certificate. If you are running this on Windows 8.1, then you have to use the script by MVP Vadims Podans from the gallery.
Infra + Dev's ramblings