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Using Azure KeyVault to store Azure Functions secrets - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Azure Functions for Developers
Using Azure KeyVault to store Azure Functions secrets
- [Instructor] It's always a good idea to store the secrets of our applications in a protective place. Things such as connection strings, or access keys should be secured to reduce our software solutions attack surface. In this video we'll see how to store both the storage account and Cosmos DB Connection strings in Azure Key Vault, so, let's get started. Before anything else we need to provision a key vault and as you can see here, I've already done that. And the first thing that I want to do is to enable the function app as a manager and entity. A manager identity enables Sasha resources to authenticate to other Cloud services without the storing and credentials in code. So, if I go to the identity option here, I will select the on status, and finally, I will click on the Save button. This is a very fast process, so let's wait for it done. Now, that the function app a manage identity, let's go back to the Key Vault…
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