For the username and APIKey that connects the container back to azure, is there a way to store that in a local Azure Key Vault? How is this not exposed in code for the docker container?
If you mean to retrieve the key vault in the local or the docker, you could implement it with the rest API or the SDK.
Firstly about rest API, you could refer to this tutorial, it uses the python to do the rest request: Use Azure Key Vault with a Windows virtual machine in Python.
It describes how to assign an identity to the VM and assign permissions to the VM identity
And about the SDK, here is a sample about python SDK to access Key Vault: Azure Key Vault libraries for Python.
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I am trying to execute the Oracle cloud infrastructure rest API's from the postman application I have followed their document and made the setup but I am getting authentication errors. I need some information regarding the OCI herders.
You can go quickly to https://www.postman.com/oracledevs/workspace/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-rest-apis/overview, fork the API you want, and start using it.
No need for complex manual steps.
For the credentials, Fork the "OCI Credentials" and input your data, as shown here:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure credentials for Postman
Please refer to below post for details.
https://redthunder.blog/2019/07/10/calling-oci-apis-from-postman/
In short, you need to create public/private key pair and upload public key to OCI via console. and use private key on your client (Postman) to authenticate your requests.
I'm trying to authenticate Azure App Configuration Service with access keys in APIM policies.
Can someone help how we can authenticate Azure App Configuration Service using Access keys in APIM policies.
You will need to implement the HMAC authentication as explained in the document below. There are code samples in a variety of languages in that doc too.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-app-configuration/rest-api-authentication-hmac
I am new to Azure API Manager, I have used Apigee Edge before where you can store each api proxy code in either git or SVN. But in Azure I am not sure how each API that is exposed via the gateway is stored. I can see there is a repository for the whole API Manager instance. Does that mean all the APIs are bundled to the same Gateway Instance and stored there?
I am planning to build a CI/CD pipeline to create the APIs in the API Manager for that I need to understand how the APIs code will be stored.
Your help is appreciated. Thanks.
Besides the GIT repository for the apimanagement instance, you can fetch it in form of ARM templates. Refer this blog.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/blog/build-a-ci-cd-pipeline-for-api-management/
We're using Vault to store our application secrets and config. When our app (Java) starts, a script does all the magic of getting the secrets and config from Vault and storing them locally for the application to read. The script is authenticating to Vault using AWS IAM role.
Now we're getting to a situation where the application needs to read secrets from Vault on the go, not just on startup. For that purpose, I need it to be able to do the authentication pretty much on every request. It's worth mentioning that the app might also run on the developer machine, so whatever authentication done - it needs to work on the EC2 instance as well as the local development environment.
I'm currently leaning towards creating a username and password, store them in Vault for the application to get when starting up. Then the application could use that username/password to authenticate to Vault when it needs.
I'm also considering AppRole, but can't really see any real advantage to it over simple user/password setup.
What's the best solution for this use-case? Any advise would be highly appreciated!
Thanks,
Yosi
The AWS recommendation for storing secrets is to use AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.
Software running on an Amazon EC2 instance with an assigned Role can use those credentials to access the Parameter Store to retrieve application secrets.
The Parameter Store can also be used outside of EC2, but some AWS credentials will still be needed to authenticate to the Parameter Store.
I am trying to figure out what is involved to write a console application that will run as part of a VSTS Release task and that program will read a connection string (secret) from a preconfigured keyvault and then connect to an Azure SQL db using that connection string and apply some changes.
Currently I have my Web Apps connecting to KeyVault and the Azure SQL Server
using Azure AD Application Token authentication so I know what is involved on that front.
When you check "Allow scripts to access OAuth token" on agent settings page,
can this token be used (using ADAL) to connect to KeyVault and SQL Server.
(Assuming the VisualStudioSPNxxx has the appropriate access to the above resources).
If not what should I be looking for?
The vsts token (Allow scripts to access OAuth token) can’t be used to connect to KeyVault.
You need to register app with Azure Active Directory and enable to communicate with Azure Active Directory and Key Vault, then get the connectionstring dynamically.
More information, you can refer to: Protecting Secrets using VSTS and Azure Key Vault
This is made relatively very easy now with Variable Groups - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/pipelines/library/variable-groups?view=vsts
You can link a secret by connecting your Azure KV to a variable and then use this variable as you would normally use it in any script/task.