Managing Stored Access Policies for Azure Service Principals

When using SAS Keys to access Azure Storage Containers, there is a problem with managing the expiry date; in that it is an immutable property. This means that SAS Keys need to be re-created and the value refreshed, which can be time consuming and problematic. However, this is an alternative, by assigning a Stored Access Policy to a SAS Key we can manage the expiry date in our pipelines. We will disucss how to do this, and the challenges and other benefits when using Stored Access Policies.