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Azure Key Vault

Learn how to use Key Vault to create and maintain keys that access and encrypt your cloud resources, apps, and solutions. Tutorials, API references, and more.

Overview

Introduction to Azure Key Vault

What's new

Important updates to service

Overview

Authentication

Overview

Basic concepts

Overview

Logging

Overview

Throttling

Certificates

  • About certificates
  • Set and retrieve a certificate from Azure Key Vault using the Azure portal
  • Get started with Key Vault certificates
  • Monitor and manage certificate creation
  • See more

Keys

  • About keys
  • Data Encryption
  • Set and retrieve a key from Azure Key Vault using the Azure portal
  • Configure key auto-rotation
  • See more

Secrets

  • About secrets
  • Set and retrieve a secret from Azure Key Vault using the Azure portal
  • Rotate secrets for single-user resources
  • See more

Managed HSM

  • What is managed HSM?
  • Provision and activate a managed HSM
  • See more

Client libraries

  • Client libraries for Azure Key Vault
  • .NET Client library
  • Python Client library
  • Java Client library
  • Node.js Client library

Key Vault with Storage

  • Manage storage keys - CLI
  • Manage storage keys - PowerShell
  • Fetch SAS tokens in code

Key Vault with Virtual Machines

  • Key Vault VM extension - Windows
  • Key Vault VM extension - Linux
  • Key Vault with Linux VMs in Ansible
  • Key Vault with Azure Disk Encryption - Linux

Key Vault Integration

  • App Services - Reference Key Vault secrets in App Services
  • Azure Kubernetes Service - Use Key Vault secrets, certificates, keys in AKS
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