Certificates are often the best way to secure your application (you can use with everything from App Registrations to Web Services). Here’s everything you need to know to integrate certificates stored in your Azure Key Vault into your application.
You have three choices for retrieving secrets from an Azure Key Vault: from your environment (simple), for your appsettings file (compatible) and from code (flexible). Here’s how to implement all three.
Even you shouldn’t be allowed to see the secrets in your Azure Key Vault. Which means that creating a Key Vault is only useful if you limit access to its secrets to just one thing: your application.
Your organization has secrets that they don’t want even you to know—but that your application does. Azure Key Vaults can make both you and your organization happy, so here’s how to set one up.
You will recreate your application’s resources multiple times. You can do that with the traditional Azure Resource Management (ARM) templates and the newer Bicep language.