- Alwin John
- November 19, 2021
How to Create & Configure Key Vaults in Microsoft Azure
Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, or cryptographic keys.
Azure Key Vault helps solve the following problems:
- Secrets Management – Azure Key Vault can be used to Securely store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets.
- Key Management – Azure Key Vault can also be used as a Key Management solution. Azure Key Vault makes it easy to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data.
- Certificate Management – Azure Key Vault is also a service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer (TLS/SSL) certificates for use with Azure and your internal connected resources.
- Login to azure portal.
- Click on All Services.
- Select Key Vaults.
- Click on Create.
- On Basics tab provide the following values:-
- Subscription: An Azure subscription grants you access to Azure services.
- Resource group name: A resource group is a collection of resources.
- Provide the Key vault name.
- Select Region & Pricing Tier.
- Set the number of days to retain deleted vault.
- Leave the other options.
- Click on Next Access Policy.
- At access policy, Select access policy & the permissions you want under Certificate permissions, Key permissions, and Secret permissions.
- Click on Next Networking.
- At Networking, Select the Network Connectivity method, If you want Key Vault will be public then select public endpoint otherwise select private endpoint.
- Next Click on Tags.
- On Tags Tab, Enter the tag name and value for Key Vault.
- Click Next on Review + Create.
- If you get a message “Validation passed”.
- Then click on Create.
- After some time, you will see a message as “Your deployment is ready”.
- Click on “Go to resources” & You can see that the Key Vault is there with the name we provide.
How to Create Keys, Secrets or Certificate in Key Vault.
- Click on New Key Vault name.
- On Overview page of Key Vault there can see Key Vault URL & other configurations.
Keys
- Click on Keys.
- Then, Click on Generate/Import option.
- Select the options like Generate or Import.
- Provide the Key name.
- Select Key Type & Key Size.
- Set the Activation & Expiration Date.
- Click on Create.
Secrets
- Click on Secret.
- Click on Generate/Import option.
- Select Upload Options like Manual, Generate or Import.
- Provide the Secret name & Value.
- Set the Activation & Expiration Date.
- Then click on create.
Certificate
- Click on Certificate.
- Click on Generate/Import option.
- Select the Method of Certificate Creation like Generate ,Import or Manual.
- Provide the Certificate name.
- Select the Type of Certificate Authority.
- Set the Validity month.
- Leave the other settings.
- Then click on create.
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