Azure Key Vault documentation

Learn how to use Key Vault to create and maintain keys that access and encrypt your cloud resources, apps, and solutions. Tutorials, API references, and more.

About Azure Key Vault

Overview

• What is Azure Key Vault?
• Important news about soft-delete

Concept

• Basic concepts
• Soft-delete
• Throttling

Tutorials

Tutorial

• Key Vault from a web application
• Key Vault with a virtual machine in .NET
• Key Vault with a virtual machine in Python

Security

Overview

• Security features
• Security baseline

How-To Guide

• Authenticate to Key Vault
• Assign access policy (CLI)
• Assign access policy (PowerShell)
• Assign access policy (Portal)

Tutorial

• Use private link

Client libraries

Reference

• Client libraries for Azure Key Vault
• .NET Client library
• Python Client library
• Java Client library
• Node.js Client library

Microsoft Learn

Learn

• Manage secrets in your server apps with Azure Key Vault