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What is Azure Key Vault?

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What is Azure Key Vault?

- Have you ever come across sensitive information like critical API keys or user credentials just laying around? Or maybe you've committed sensitive information to your own repos? It's okay. I won't tell anyone. Hopefully the consequences of these scenarios are apparent to you. When critical pieces of our applications are exposed or are easier to get to, the more insecure our applications really are. That's why it's especially important for us as developers to ensure these parts of our application are secure. This is where Azure Key Vault comes in. Just like it sounds, Key Vault is a centralized place to store all kinds of sensitive information that your application might need. Things like API keys, tokens, connection strings, and passwords can all be stored and managed in the Azure Key Vault, which means you can remove it from your application's code. What's extremely convenient is that when we do need this…

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