Use Entra IDs to run jobs on your HPC cluster

Introduction This blog demonstrates the practical implementation of System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) with the recently introduced “idp” provider that can be used on Azure Linux 3.0 HPC clusters to provide consistent Usernames, UIDs and GIDs across the cluster all rooted in Microsoft Entra ID. Having consistent Identities across the…

29/09/2025Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog

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