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Quick-Start Guide to Azure Private Endpoints with AKS & Storage

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Oct 09, 2023
Introduction Azure Private Endpoints (PE) offer a robust and secure method for establishing connections via a private link. This blog focuses on utilizing PEs to link a Private Azure Kubernetes Ser...
Updated Oct 02, 2023
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manojpaul2024
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Nov 07, 2025

Hello!

Instead of using storageAccountKey, can we use managed identity or Entra Integration Auth here for the storage account ?

We have an AKS(private) cluster running on 1.33 and linux nodes and looking to use  storage account to use RWX access mode but without the use of access keys. 

We couldn't find an exact setting for the storage class/pvc manifest file that would work. We also looked at the preview version of this wiki https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/azure-files-csi#use-managed-identity-to-access-azure-files-storage--preview which is supposed to work with user managed identity but failed to get the PVC in ready state due to lack of documentation on what we can use.