Support user assigned managed identities for azure batch pool add parameter

[jakevc]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I am unable to find out how to add a user assigned managed identity to the azure batch pool via the python SDK

Describe the solution you'd like

I want to be able to add a user assigned managed identity for the azure batch pool when adding a pool

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[ghost]

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[kristapratico]

@jakevc thanks for your issue. We'll investigate and get back to you as soon as possible.

[jakevc]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/606714/how-do-i-add-managed-identity-to-azure-batch-pool

This advice for example, seems to be inaccurate because PoolAddParameter class doesn't actually have an identity field.

[jakevc]

Ohh this is a duplicate of this other issue I guess: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/issues/21811

[jakevc]

But still should really be included in this SDK

[jakevc]

Very cumbersome to have to use two different Batch clients

[xiangyan99]

@wiboris could you help to answer the question?

[renjthmails]

Hello @xiangyan99,

Do we have solution yet or any tentative dates for this implementation to be available as part of the package ? Thank You, Renjith R

[jakevc]

Ping here again @wiboris @cRui861 @paterasMSFT

[datatrigger]

@jakevc Thanks for raising this issue. I am trying to set up a Batch pool able to pull from ACR but the fact that PoolAddParameter does not have any identity field makes it very cumbersome. @wiboris & Team, please add such a field in the Python SDK as it is part of the equivalent .NET class. Many thanks!

[jakevc]

@datatrigger I ended up refactoring my code so that the pool creation step uses the azure.mgmt.batch,

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/python/api/azure-mgmt-batch/azure.mgmt.batch.operations.pooloperations?view=azure-python#azure-mgmt-batch-operations-pooloperations-create

The Pool class in this package does support passing a managed identity:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/python/api/azure-mgmt-batch/azure.mgmt.batch.models.pool?view=azure-python

And then for the other job and task operations I use azure.batch

[github-actions[bot]]

Thanks for the feedback! We are routing this to the appropriate team for follow-up. cc @mksuni @bgklein @mscurrell @cRui861 @paterasMSFT @gingi @dpwatrous.

[kfajdsl]

Bump, this is super valuable for me as well - having to use two different clients is extremely cumbersome.

[jakevc]

I think the underlying reason for this is that not all components of azure batch are supported by ARM yet. Basically, the problem runs deep.

[rfernand2]

Please update the docs to reflect this workaround until a cleaner solution is implemented.