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🎞 ANIMATE · Mode 3 of 5 · +100 XP— Azure OpenAI
📋Auth
⚙️Configure
🔄Call
✅Safety
🎯 Next: Test →
Step 1 / 4
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Authentication
Use DefaultAzureCredential for passwordless auth💡 Analogy
Like a smart key card that works everywhere — your office building, the parking garage, the cafeteria.
DefaultAzureCredential uses Managed Identity in Azure, and your local az login credentials in development. No secrets in code.
Console Output
> DefaultAzureCredential initialized
> Token acquired from: ManagedIdentityCredential
> Token scope: cognitiveservices.azure.com
●azure-openai.ts
AuthenticationL1–14
1import { AzureOpenAI } from 'openai';
2import { DefaultAzureCredential } from '@azure/identity';
3 
4// Passwordless authentication via Managed Identity
5const credential = new DefaultAzureCredential();
6const client = new AzureOpenAI({
7  endpoint: process.env.AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT!,
8  apiVersion: '2024-10-21',
9  azureADTokenProvider: async () => {
10    const token = await credential.getToken(
11      'https://cognitiveservices.azure.com/.default'
12    );
13    return token.token;
14  },
15});
16 
17const DEPLOYMENT = 'gpt-4o'; // deployment name in Azure portal
18 
19async function chat(messages: Array<{role: string; content: string}>) {
20  const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
21    model: DEPLOYMENT,
22    messages,
23    max_tokens: 1000,
24    temperature: 0.7,
25  });
26  return response.choices[0].message.content;
27}
28 
29// Content filtering is enforced at the Azure layer
30async function safeChat(userMessage: string) {
31  try {
32    return await chat([{ role: 'user', content: userMessage }]);
33  } catch (err: any) {
34    if (err.status === 400 && err.code === 'content_filter') {
35      return 'Message filtered by Azure content safety policy.';
36    }
37    throw err;
38  }
39}
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Timeline — 4 Steps
Authentication
Use DefaultAzureCredential for passwordless auth💡 Analogy
Like a smart key card that works everywhere — your office building, the parking garage, the cafeteria.
DefaultAzureCredential uses Managed Identity in Azure, and your local az login credentials in development. No secrets in code.
Console Output
> DefaultAzureCredential initialized
> Token acquired from: ManagedIdentityCredential
> Token scope: cognitiveservices.azure.com

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Use DefaultAzureCredential for passwordless auth

💡 Analogy

Like a smart key card that works everywhere — your office building, the parking garage, the cafeteria.

DefaultAzureCredential uses Managed Identity in Azure, and your local az login credentials in development. No secrets in code.

Console Output

> DefaultAzureCredential initialized
> Token acquired from: ManagedIdentityCredential
> Token scope: cognitiveservices.azure.com

Use DefaultAzureCredential for passwordless auth

💡 Analogy

Like a smart key card that works everywhere — your office building, the parking garage, the cafeteria.

DefaultAzureCredential uses Managed Identity in Azure, and your local az login credentials in development. No secrets in code.

Console Output

> DefaultAzureCredential initialized
> Token acquired from: ManagedIdentityCredential
> Token scope: cognitiveservices.azure.com