Tag Archives: secrets

Using Key Vault and Managed Identities with Azure Functions

July 20, 2020 · by · in .NET Core, App Service, ASP.NET Core, Azure, Azure functions, Azure Key Vault · 4 Comments

This article shows how Azure Key Vault could be used together with Azure Functions. The Azure Functions can use the system assigned identity to access the Key Vault. This needs to be configured in the Key Vault access policies using the service principal. By using the Microsoft.Azure.KeyVault and the Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.AzureKeyVault nuget packages, defining direct references […]

Azure Functions Configuration and Secrets Management

July 12, 2020 · by · in .NET Core, App Service, ASP.NET Core, Azure, Azure functions, Azure Key Vault, Deployment, devops · 12 Comments

This post shows how to configure Azure Function projects so that no secrets are required in the local.settings.json or in the code. Secrets for the project are saved in the user secrets of the project, or in the app settings of the deployment. The deployment should/can use Azure Key Vault for the secrets and not […]

Using Azure Key Vault from a non-Azure App

February 7, 2019 · by · in ASP.NET Core, Azure, MVC, Security, Web · 1 Comment

In this article, I show how Azure Key Vault can be used with a non Azure application. An example of this, is a console application used for data migrations, or data seeding during release pipelines. This app could then read the secret connection strings from the Key Vault, and then do the app logic as […]

Deploying ASP.NET Core App Services using Azure Key Vault and Azure Resource Manager templates

January 7, 2019 · by · in .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Azure, Deployment, MVC, Security, Web · 1 Comment

This article shows how to create an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template which uses an Azure Key Vault. The ARM template is used to deploy an ASP.NET Core application as an Azure App Service. By using an Azure Resource Group project, the secret app settings can be fetched from the Azure Key Vault during deployment, […]