Implementing Secure Cloud Solutions

Now that we’ve been through the authentication and authorization side of security, it’s the time for us to talk about deploying apps securely in Azure. One of the benefits of hosting your applications in the cloud is the security capabilities that come with the platform.

In this chapter, we’re going to start by talking about securing your application secrets with Azure Key Vault. This will also cover recommendations for providing access to your vaults and secrets. We’re going to then look at how to authenticate your application with Azure resources using managed identities, exploring the different types of managed identities available within Azure.

We’ll finish the chapter with a look at the Azure App Configuration service for centrally and securely storing your application configuration settings, including how to use the feature management capabilities of the service to centrally manage enabling and disabling...