How can I set a variable with the value that I have stored in a KeyVault secret?
Update:
Hi #willy sepulveda. We only can secure the input and output in Web Activity,like follows:
Input and output data will be sensitive:
You can use Web activity to access the Key Valut value. Refer this documentation. I also created a test.
Open the properties of your data factory and copy the Managed Identity Object ID value. Open the key vault access policies and add the managed identity permissions to Get and List secrets.
Then I created a secret named myKey and set the value helloworld.
Note: The name of the secret (myKey) will be used below at Step 5.
Declare a String type variable named myVar in ADF pipeline.
In Web1 activity, select Sceure output.
Web1 activity settings
URL: https://<your-keyvalut-name>.vault.azure.net/secrets/<your-secret-name>?api-version=7.0.
You need replace keyvalut name and secret name.
Authentication: Select Managed Identity.
Resource: Enter https://vault.azure.net.
In Set variable1 activity, add dynamic content #activity('Web1').output.value.
Debug result: I can see that the variable successfully received the secret value.
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I have azure key vault service in which we are maintaining secrets.
I have to deploy APIM service using ARM JOB in Azure devops release pipeline so I have added this job and added configured template.json and parameter.json and how to pass key vault as over ride parameter to ARM job in over ride parameters?. I tried with below option
I have added keyvault job/varaible group in azure pipelines then in over ride params i called $(keyvaultname/secretname) then saved it and ran the pipeline but i am geeting below issue
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Please go to Pipelines -> Library -> create a variable group which contain the keyvalut.
Link the Variable group in your pipeline, make sure the variable of secret is listed.
In the ARM task, overwrite the parameters with "$(var)" name.
PFA .
I have created Variable group and then came back to release pipeline arm job then in the override parameter .
Arm job over ride parameter
Variable group
Before I deploy a function app and functions through PowerShell > ARM template I dynamically get a service bus connection string and update the value in the connection binding in the function.json file. Then I deploy the function app and function.
Deployment works, but the function app returns an error message:
Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.ServiceBus: Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK ServiceBus connection string 'Endpoint=sb://sbname.servicebus.windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=RootManageSharedAccessKey;[Hidden Credential]' is missing or empty.
The question is: Do we really have to create an application setting on the function app with this connection string in it? Is there no other option than using the app setting?
It feels like storing the connection string in another location than on the service bus would just create another vulnerability.
I am aware that I could define "connection": "RootManageSharedAccessKey_SERVICEBUS" in the function.json file and then create an app setting with that same name, but that's not the way forward I want to go.
Please check if my findings help to:
Instead of storing the Service Bus Connection String directly, you can utilize the Azure Key Vault Service or Azure App Configuration Service.
You can store the confidential values like Connection Strings, Key-value pairs, Client Secrets, Certificate Passwords, etc. in Azure Key Vault.
Assume you have stored the ServiceBus connection string in the Key Vault. That you want to retrieve in the Function App through Application Settings but here in the app setting you can define as:
"connection": #Microsoft.KeyVault(SecretUri=https://myvault.vault.azure.net/secrets/RootManageSharedAccessKey_SERVICEBUS/)
This KeyVault URI cannot be accessed by any other user until they are assigned with System or User Assigned Managed Identity Permission.
Azure App Configuration is a central place where you can manage application settings and secure their accesses in one place. Refer here for more information.
Quote from the aws cdk docs:
If you need to use a pre-existing secret, the recommended way is to manually provision the secret in AWS SecretsManager and use the Secret.fromSecretArn or Secret.fromSecretAttributes method to make it available in your CDK Application
Why is that? Is it because it's not ideal to save the plain text secret into code?
Or we don't want the secret to appear in the cloudformation template?
Yes and yes. Earlier CDK versions did not even permit passing text values to the Secret constructor. We only recently got the secretStringBeta1: string prop along with a stern warning:
It is highly encouraged to leave this field undefined and allow SecretsManager to create the secret value. The secret string -- if provided -- will be included in the output of the cdk as part of synthesis, and will appear in the CloudFormation template in the console. This can be secure(-ish) if that value is merely reference to another resource (or one of its attributes), but if the value is a plaintext string, it will be visible to anyone with access to the CloudFormation template (via the AWS Console, SDKs, or CLI).
Our CDK code and generated templates are meant to be deterministic and version-controlled, further heightening the risk of leakage if plaintext secrets are used.
Edit: Per #gshpychka's comment, a safe alternative to importing with Secret.fromSecretArn is to construct a new Secret without a secret value. This creates a secret with a random password, which you change post-deploy in the Console. This approach helpfully ties the secret's lifecycle to the Stack and lets you set its properties in the context of the Stack.
I'd like to be able to do the following:
Generate an ApplicationPassword without generating the actual value for the password (let Azure do it, similar to the way Azure generates the secret value for you in the UI, or that secretText is a return value from this azure api method: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/application-addpassword?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http)
Put that secret in an Azure key vault
Redeploy the stack without having it generate a new secret everytime
Is this possible?
The reason I'd like to not specify the secret value, is that I then need to commit the secret value to code, which I don't want.
The only workaround I can think of is generating the secret value in code, storing it in keyvault, retrieving it from keyvault and using that to create the ApplicationPassword, but then that would cause Pulumi to create a new secret in the keyvault (and then a new ApplicationPassword) each time I deploy the stack.
You can use the RandomPassword resource to generate a password that is stable between multiple runs of the same stack. It's generated once and then stored in the state file.
const password = new random.RandomPassword("password", {
length: 16,
special: true,
});
// use password.result somewhere
I have a service connection created for Azure Repos in a separate Azure DevOps org using a PAT.
I would like to be able to access that PAT from a PowerShell script in my pipeline yml since that same PAT has access to a nuget feed in the external org as well and I want to restore a package using that PAT.
Is there any way to do this? Or do I need to create a variable with that same PAT and store the token twice?
Is there any way to do this? Or do I need to create a variable with that same PAT and store the token twice?
We can't access value of specific PAT via reading the service connection which uses the PAT for authorization. As the only way we use service connection is to copy the connection name/ID into pipeline as a value.
What's more, PAT can only be obtained and saved directly when you create it. After that you can only get PAT from where you saved, and you cannot find it from anywhere in Azure DevOps.
If you want to use that PAT in pipeline, you can save it in a variable group as a secret variable.
Here is the detailed steps:
1.Go to Pipelines -> Library -> Create a variable group -> Add a variable and change its type to secret -> Save.
2.Add the variable group to variables in YAML.
variables:
- group: {variable group}
Then you can get the value of PAT by PowerShell scripts.