How To Create Azure Key Vault In Microsoft Azure Portal

Introduction

In this article will learn how to create Azure key vault using Azure portal. Azure Key Vault use for managing secrets.

What is Azure key vault?

Microsoft azure key vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing application secrets. A secret can be anything that you want to tightly control access to, it is like your API keys, password, certificates, cryptographic keys, etc.

What are the uses of Azure key vault?

Azure Key Vault can be used to Securely store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets. Key Management - Azure Key Vault can be used as a Key Management solution.

Why do we need key vault?

The Key Vault provides a cloud based key management solution. Using this you can create, and control keys used to encrypt data. You can then integrate other services with key vault and decrypt secrets without knowing the encryption keys.

Step 1 login into Azure account. If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account

Step 2 Sign into the Azure portal here

Step 3 From the Azure portal menu, or from the Home page, select Create a resource.

Now in Azure portal in the Search box, enter Key Vault.

From the results list, choose Key Vault.

On the Key Vault section, choose Create.

On the Create key vault section provide the following information:

1. Subscription: Choose a subscription
2. Resource Group, Choose Create new and enter a resource group name or you can choose existing resource group created.
3. Key Vault Name: A unique name is required.
4. Region: Choose region
5. Pricing: Choose pricing tier.

6. After providing the information above, select Create. You are done. You have created your first azure key vault. Below screenshot will show how it looks.

Conclusion

In the above article, we have learned how to create Azure key vault to manage our secret. You can go through menu option provided in created key vault and learn more about it.