`TimeoutError` but azure still connects? about quantum HOT 4 CLOSED

I repro'd in MyBinder, but I couldn't repro in local container when I pulled down the exact image and ran it locally. There seems to be something in MyBinder environment that is blocking Azure.Identity from finishing for nearly 5 mins.

If you are using Azure CLI for the initial login on the terminal:
az login
az account set -s ""

Then I think bypassing all other auth methods that Azure.Identity package searches for and just setting CLI seemed to help it not get stuck for 5 mins:

import qsharp.azure
targets = qsharp.azure.connect(
resourceId="",
location="",
credential="CLI")

@ryanhill1 , can you see if setting credential="CLI" helps in your case? If it helps you as well, I can open a ticket with Azure.Identity to see if they can help get to bottom of it.

As for why it appeared that TimeoutErrors were transient, it is that the Timeout errors were thrown by python interop's timeouts of 120 seconds and 240 seconds respectively, but the original auth call was still ongoing in the kernel (so underlying IQ# kernel was busy). Once auth finishes behind the scenes, then qsharp.azure.target went through on second retry.

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I can confirm that this works in less than 5 seconds on qBraid. Thank you for the workaround. @xinyi-joffre

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We discovered the issue has to do with ManagedIdentity credential time waiting for a long timeout if the ManagedIdentity endpoint doesn't exist in certain environments. This bug is tracked here for Azure.Identity:
Azure/azure-sdk-for-net#24767
Azure/azure-sdk-for-net#29471

Outside of workaround above, you can also pass the same credential type argument for %azure.connect commands (which probably weren't timing out for you, but would have probably also taken a long time due to this issue:
%azure.connect "<resourceId>" location="" credential="CLI"

We are working on applying a fix for this in QDK, so no special credential type needs to be passed in the next version of QDK (either this month's release or next month's release)! We will close this issue once it is released.

Thanks for raising this issue!

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@xinyi-joffre Thanks for your help and for your quick response!

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