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Getting secrets from Key Vault in YAML pipeline

September 12, 2022 Sep 12, 2022 09/12/22

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Andrew Redman spotlights how to use a Key Vault Task inside an Azure DevOps pipeline to automate a deployment using secrets. Keeping your connection strings and secrets secure is not necessarily only a concern of just one type of industry. The best practice would be to keep security at the top of your mind regardless of if you are ...

Generate a Service Bus SAS Token and Manage Token renewal using Azure Runbooks

November 12, 2020 Nov 12, 2020 11/12/20

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This article covers the process of generating a service bus token using PowerShell, using an azure runbook to cover token generation and renewal, and the how process can be automated and managed with a CI/CD pipeline.

Managing Cloud Ready .NET App Secrets in Visual Studio

May 31, 2020 May 31, 2020 05/31/20

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Secrets need to be handled with care and this is the responsibility of every developer. We’ve all read those news reports of someone accidently checking a production password into source control only to find out the next day that their credit card has been maxed out.

Azure SQL TDE failures – Activity log Alerts to rescue

May 22, 2020 May 22, 2020 05/22/20

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The SQL Server connection to the Key Vault can be lost for various reasons of either the SQL Server (updates, backups etc..) or the Key Vault (Key expired, disabled etc.) Luckily Azure provides detailed logging and alerting through Azure Monitor Logs and Alerts.

Azure Key Vault and Transparent Data Encryption

February 21, 2020 Feb 21, 2020 02/21/20

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Azure Key Vault is a tool for securely storing and accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, or certificates. A vault is a logical group of secrets.

Unseen secrets – using KeyVault to protect OAuth2 token requests

February 12, 2020 Feb 12, 2020 02/12/20

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This sample implements an Azure Function App, which uses Azure KeyVault to sign OAuth2 client assertions used to obtain JWT tokens from Azure AD. The private key used to sign the client assertion and thus authenticate the function to Azure AD is generated in the KeyVault and never leaves that service (it is not exportable).

Centralized VM Certificate Deployment Across Multiple Regions with ARM Templates

February 9, 2020 Feb 9, 2020 02/9/20

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Many systems still rely on certificate authentication. Those certificates need to be rotated and often managed from a central location. In this post, I will explain how to centralize your VM certificate deployment across multiple Azure Regions with ARM Templates and Key Vault.

Automating Releases to Separate Azure Resource Groups using both TFS and VSTS

June 6, 2018 Jun 6, 2018 06/6/18

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This post is written collaboratively by Premier Developer Consultants Ilias Jennane and Daisy Chaussee along with App Dev Manager Wyn Lewis-Bevan. Read on to learn how to build a solution in TFS, release it in VSTS, and automate the deployments to separate Azure Resource Groups. Business Case: One of our customers recently challenged us ...

Protecting Secrets using VSTS and Azure Key Vault

March 28, 2017 Mar 28, 2017 03/28/17

Pam Lahoud

In his latest blog post, Premier Developer consultant Najib Zarrari discusses one approach to protecting sensitive information in your application by using VSTS and Azure Key Vault. If you are building a modern application and are following modern design principles, there is a good chance your application is composed of a number of layers ...

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