Azure Key Vault REST API reference

• 12/03/2018
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Managing your Key Vault and the contents of your Key Vault can be accomplished through a REST interface. Below are lists of some of the common tasks for managing both.

Key Vaults

Manage your Key Vault using the following set of operations, which are also known as management plane operations. The management plane interface is used to manage a Key Vault itself. For instance, creating, deleting, or updating Key Vault attributes, and setting access policies for the data plane.

• Manage a Key Vault
• Create or update a Key Vault
• Delete a Key Vault
• Get info about a Key Vault

Keys, secrets, certificates, and storage accounts

Managing data within a Key Vault, such as keys, secrets, certificates, and storage keys, is accomplished by data plane operations. The data plane interface is used to add, delete, modify, and use the keys, secrets, and certificates stored in a Key Vault.

Keys

• Create a key
• Get information about a key
• Encrypt using a key
• Recover a deleted key

Secrets

• Create a secret
• Get a secret
• Recover a deleted secret

Certificates

• Create a certificate
• Import a certificate
• Update a certificate
• Update a certificate policy
• Recover a deleted certificate

Storage accounts

• Set a storage account
• Get a storage account
• Delete a storage account

For concepts and detailed information about data plane objects, see About keys, secrets, and certificates.

See also

• For general information on constructing Azure REST API requests, see the Azure REST API reference
• For information specific to constructing Key Vault REST API requests, see
  • Common HTTP request parameters and headers
  • Authentication, requests and responses
• See the following topics for additional Key Vault concepts and details
  • About keys, secrets, and certificates
  • Key Vault Developer's Guide
  • Key Vault versions