Integrating Azure Key Vault to configure application secrets
One of the major parts of any project is handling secrets in an efficient manner to adhere to organization-wide security guidelines. It's not advised to maintain secrets (such as passwords) in code or in files that are accessible to developers or any other stakeholders. In fact, these days, all the production environment details are only accessible by a few people and the secrets are managed by various systems. One such system in Azure is Key Vault. In this recipe, we'll learn how to leverage Key Vault to manage a secret that can be accessed by the code in a function app.
How to do it…
In this recipe, we will work on the following steps:
- Creating a secret in the Key Vault service.
- Configuring the Azure DevOps release pipeline.
- Configuring the access policy.
Creating a secret in the Key Vault service
In this section, we will create a Key Vault service that can be used to manage...
