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In this post, I go over in more details the steps of retrieving secrets from an azure key vault using client id and secret. This approach is one of the three ways to authenticate a Windows virtual machine against azure key vault. It is suitable if your app runs on a virtual machine which is not an azure resource and so cannot use azure managed identity.
At the high level, the process involves these steps:
You can find the sample project for this post here.
In this post, I share three ways of gaining a Windows virtual machine access to a key vault. The machine can be an azure virtual machine or a non-azure machine such as your personal computer or a on premise server.