Azure

Keeping Sensitive Configuration Data Out of Source Control Members Public

Different options to manage sensitive configuration data and to keep it out of source control.

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Programming

Could Not Load Assembly msshrtmi.dll? Members Public

While migrating a few Azure Cloud Services to Web Jobs, we started facing the error, Could not load assembly ... /msshrtmi.dll,for just one of the projects. The error provides the exact path from where it is trying to load the DLL and is the same path from which the

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Dotnet

Managing Azure Key Vault using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates Members Public

Creating and managing Azure Key Vault was mostly supported through PowerShell cmdlets initially, but there are multiple ways of achieving this now - REST API, PowerShell, CLI or ARM templates. In this post, we will look into how we can use Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to create and manage

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Azure

Managing Azure Key Vault over the REST API Members Public

Creating and managing Azure Key Vault was mostly supported through PowerShell cmdlets initially, but there are multiple ways of achieving this now - REST API, PowerShell, CLI or ARM templates. In this post, we will look into how we can use the REST API to create and manage a Key

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Azure

PFX Certificate in Azure Key Vault Members Public

Note: Azure Key Vault now support Certificates as a first class citizen. Check out the post, Manage Certificates in Azure Key Vault for more details. You can use PFX certificate's along with Azure Key Vault in multiple ways, depending on your use case. You can import the PFX

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Azure

Using Azure Key Vault from a Java Application Members Public

Azure Key Vault service is a cloud hosted, HSM(Hardware Security Modules)-backed service for managing cryptographic keys and other secrets. With Azure Key Vault, the process of managing and controlling the keys required for an application or multiple applications for an enterprise can be handled at a centralized place.

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Azure

How the Deprecation of Switch AzureMode Affects Azure Key Vault Members Public

It's been a while that the 'Switch AzureMode' is deprecated in the Azure PowerShell and has left breaking changes in all the scripts that were using it. I had come across this mode switch first, when starting off with Azure Key Vault, as the then existing

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Azure

Managing User Permissions for Key Vault Members Public

This post describes on how user permissions can be managed for a key vault. It details on adding user access to modify keys or secrets in a vault.

Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Rahul Pulikkot Nath
Azure