Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

Adding keys and secrets

After the Key Vault is created, we can add secrets and keys.

Let's first add a key that we'll use for encryption later. Keys can be generated, imported, or restored from backup. An example of how to add a new key is shown here:

Secrets can be used to provide passwords when creating resources. When you are creating resources using an ARM template, you need to provide a password. To prevent the password from being shown as plain text, you can use secrets in Key Vault to provide a value for the password and prevent this. Secrets can be manually created or imported from the certificate. In this example, we can see how ...