azure/login pre step takes up to 1 minute to execute

[olafurnielsen]

Observed behavior: The pre step in azure/login takes up to 1 minute to execute. Very seldom does it take a few seconds to execute. In some of our builds this accounts for half the total build time.

Expected behavior: The step should consistently execute in a few seconds.

Information:

• azure/login@v2
• Authenticating against Azure public cloud
• Using OIDC credentials
• Running on GitHub hosted runners

Used as:

- name: Login to Azure
  uses: azure/login@v2
  with:
    tenant-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_TENANT_ID }}
    client-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_CLIENT_ID }}
    subscription-id: ${{ secrets.AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID }}

Resulting in:

What can be done to speed this up?