Azure Web Job Error: ManagedIdentityCredential authentication unavailable

Question

After deploying a Web Job to my web app, the Managed Identity that I was using locally without any issues threw the following error:

ManagedIdentityCredential authentication unavailable. Multiple attempts failed to obtain a token from the managed identity endpoint.

It worked locally, but failed after deployment to Azure.

Answer 1

The Web App was not configured to use an identity. After I added the Managed Identity to my Web App under Identity / User Assigned, the issue was fixed.

Hope this helps someone else.