S✔ ◾ Adding support for Workload Identity Federation

[muiriswoulfe]

Summary

This adds support for Workload Identity Federation, including instructions on how it can be established. It also includes an update to support binary files, which were found to be problematic during testing of this PR.

Detailed Description

This introduces several changes to improve the security and documentation of the project. The most significant changes include the addition of Workload Identity Federation as an alternative to Personal Access Tokens (PATs) for authentication, updates to the LICENSE file, and modifications to the documentation.

Authentication improvements:

• src/task/Strings/resources.resjson/en-US/resources.resjson: Added Workload Identity Federation as an optional input for authentication, providing a more secure alternative to PATs. [1] [2] [3]

License updates:

• LICENSE: Changed the license header from "PR Metrics" to "MIT License".

Documentation updates:

• .github/linters/markdown-link-check.json: Added a new link to the markdown link checker.
• README.md: Updated the instructions for setting up a Personal Access Token (PAT).
• docs/azure-pipelines-task.md: Made several changes to improve the documentation on setting up the Azure Pipelines task, including recommending the use of Workload Identity Federation for authentication and updating the instructions for setting up a PAT. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
• docs/workload-identity-federation.md: Added a new document providing comprehensive instructions on setting up Workload Identity Federation for authentication.
• src/overview.md: Updated the documentation to include references to the new Workload Identity Federation setup instructions and made other minor updates. [1] [2] [3]

Testing

Test Types

• Unit tests
• Manual tests

Unit Test Coverage

100%

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Ignored Code	226
Total	1,543

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