Azure Key Vault posts

Using Azure Key Vault for signing and encrypting JSON Web Tokens

Posted on: 20-02-2024

How to offload cryptographic operations to Azure Key Vault such that your application never has to handle the private keys.

Using Azure RBAC with Azure Key Vault

Posted on: 24-09-2020

Exploring the new, standard way of granting access to Key Vault through Azure RBAC instead of access policies

ASP.NET Core Data Protection with Azure Key Vault and Azure Storage

Posted on: 14-03-2020

How to configure and use the combination of Azure Storage and Azure Key Vault for data protection in ASP.NET Core with the new Azure integration packages

Testing Azure AD-protected APIs, part 3: Automated integration tests

Posted on: 29-12-2019

In the third part we look at how we might build automated integration tests against an Azure AD-protected API

Keeping secrets out of version control in .NET applications

Posted on: 26-05-2019

Goes through methods of storing secrets in a way where they cannot end up in the shared code repository

Using Azure Key Vault and Azure Storage to store Data Protection keys with ASP.NET Core

Posted on: 07-04-2019

A look at how ASP.NET Core's Data Protection can be setup in a good way using Azure services

ASP.NET Core + Azure Key Vault + Azure AD MSI = Awesome way to do config

Posted on: 06-03-2018

Looks at an example for storing sensitive configuration in Azure Key Vault, and connecting it to the ASP.NET Core configuration pipeline.

Azure AD Managed Service Identity

Posted on: 13-10-2017

Walkthrough on how to use the new Managed Service Identity service in Azure to easily authenticate against services with no credentials stored within the app.

Hi! My name is Joonas Westlin, I'm a software developer who blogs about ASP.NET Core, Azure, and Web development.

Azure MVP, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Security Engineer Associate, Azure Developer Associate.