Introduction
If you want to store secrets in the Azure cloud, for example, connection strings, passwords, or even keys, the Key Vault might be for you.
The Azure Key Vault is a highly secure service enabling you to store sensitive data and even help you with consistence activities. The Azure Key Vault is designed to store secrets and keys, including certificates, in a way that is highly secure. Truth be told, keys put away in the Key Vault are not unmistakable to Microsoft. Developers can oversee keys for development and test purposes while offering control to security tasks for production systems.
In addition to storing keys and secrets, the Key Vault can likewise be utilized to perform cryptographic estimations, with the goal that applications don't really approach the keys directly. You should also note that all tasks against the Key Vault are logged with the administrators that can monitor usage of keys and secrets.
Creating the application in Azure (client)
Sign in to the Azure portal.
Open on your account.
In the directory list (click the Active Directory tenant to register your application).
Click All services.
Enter Azure Active Directory in the search box, and in the search results, click Azure Active Directory.
Click App registrations after open that.
Click the New registration in App registrations.
Fill in the Register an application, and then click Register button.
Successfully created.
Open and overview the new App. Then copy the Application (client) ID.
After that, click Certificates & secrets.
Then click New client secret after opened Certificates & secrets.
Enter a description and an expiration period for the client secret, and then click Add button.
Then copy the value of the client secret.
Click API permissions, and then click Add a permission and select Azure Key Vault API.
Then, Select Delegated permissions, select the user impersonation check box, and then click Add permissions button.
Finally, you have successfully created client secret.
Summary
In this article, we saw the Azure key vault keystore Configuration. In my next article, I will cover the next step of this series.