Issues with Azure Storage Backend

[trondhindenes]

Problem description

I was surprises to notice that using an Azure storage account for backend seems to require either either the AZURE_STORAGE_KEY or AZURE_STORAGE_SAS_TOKEN environment variables.

Is it not possible to use my logged-in and authenticated azure cli user to authenticate?
Why this realiance on (semi-documented) environment variables as opposed to config files?

Affected product version(s)

Suggestions for a fix

• Properly document the various cloud backends' configuration options and their meanings
• In time, I hope pulumi will consider adding support for declarative as opposed to random envvars for configuring state backends

[interurban]

Thanks for flagging this @trondhindenes, Let me talk with the service team and get back to you but seems like a use case for ESC which we should address!

[trondhindenes]

Thanks! We're not ESC users, just trying to figure out what envvars are available, and what they mean. Neither is really well documented.