Azure Key Vault

If you are someone who recently discovered that adding your secrets ( API Keys, username, password, hostname etc ) directly to your source code is considered as a bad practice or if you are yet not aware of it then “Surprise”. Yes, if your code contains lines like this…

Introduction When we are developing our applications it is important to take special care of the way we guard our secrets and how we control the access to them. From an unintentional mistake till a malicious attack, there are many reasons why we need to manage our secrets correctly. If you…

This article is part of a series: Part 1: Basics Part 2: Options Pattern Part 3: Hot-Reload What is Azure App Configuration? Azure App Configuration provides a service to centrally manage application settings and feature flags. It gives you a way to centralize and manage your configuration entries whether that be for just one service…

(Well, Python on a Data Plane) Azure Key Vault gives you many ways to safely store and use cryptographic keys, secrets, and certificates: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/key-vault/general Access to a key vault is controlled through two control planes: the management plane and the data plane. Management Plane- manage the Key Vault itself, for…

From the article Transparent Data Encryption for SQL Database, SQL Managed Instance, and Azure Synpase Analytics Concept TDE provides encryption-at-rest by encrypting and decrypting data pages in real-time. Pages are decrypted when read into memory, and encrypted when written to disk. TDE protects the following data files: Database data files Database…

Azure Key vault is a great tool for securely storing and accessing secrets. A secret could be anything that you want to control access to like passwords or API keys. A vault is a logical group of secrets that provides a secure way of accessing them. The is to use…

Below are the bash script used to migrate key vault data (from one KV to another) using the bash script More details coming soon.. #Azure #Keyvault #migration

With Managed Identities Azure Container Apps can securely access other Azure resources like KeyVaults or SQL Servers without having to store connection strings on their own. This article describes how to deploy with Bicep and consume secrets in a .NET 6 app. — Scenario Let’s assume we want to develop a ASP.NET Core 6 app that needs to retrieve a secret from Azure KeyVault and run this app in Azure Container Services. Luckily today Managed Identities has landed as a new feature in the Preview. Read more here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/managed-identity