HOW TO CREATE KEY VAULT IN AZURE AND STORE SECRET PASSWORD WITHIN THE KEY VAULT

Many services and applications use certificates and other secrets for authentication, data connections, encryption, and so on.

For example, imagine your organization has created a custom service that needs to communicate securely across your environment with other services. It would likely do so using credentials.

Hard-coding credentials in an application puts those credentials at risk for compromise and makes key management difficult at best.

Azure Key Vault enables you to securely store secrets such as tokens, passwords, certificates, cryptographic keys, …

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