Secure APIs with FastAPI and the Microsoft Identity Platform Transcripts
Chapter: Course conclusion and review
Lecture: Review: Calling our secure FastAPI
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In Chapter four, we looked at how we can call our secure API. Clients that need
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to call our FastAPI first need to authenticate and acquire an access token. This is the standard Oauth2 process.
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We've also learned that depending on the application type, the authentication varies quite a bit.
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Interactive clients such as web apps desktop and mobile applications require a user to be present so that they can go through the overflow and consent.
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Non interactive applications such as daemons and api's, use a different approach. Whereas the application itself acquires a token using the client,
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condition flow with a secret or certificate.
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We also saw the different application types have different configuration settings inside Azure Active Directory and
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the difference between scopes and application roles and when they should be used.