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Connecting Azure Web App to KeyVault for Application Settings Challenge

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Lab description

Azure Key Vault is centralized secret storage that allows you to control the distribution and access to the secrets. Access to the keys requires proper authentication and authorization before access is granted. Managed Identity provides an application identity to the PaaS or SaaS offering in the Azure that allows you to connect to any Azure service that supports RBAC access through Azure AD.

This lab challenge assumes familiarity with the following concepts:

Understanding of Azure KeyVault and Azure Web App offering
Understanding Application Settings on web apps and using KeyVault reference for secrets

This hands-on lab challenge will test your practical ability to interact with the Azure Web Apps to satisfy a set of requirements in a production-like Azure environment. You will be presented with a task and set of requirements you must fulfill to pass the challenge.

This is a real environment, which means you can prove your knowledge in an applied way, substituting multiple choice questions for a dynamic performance-based exam situation.

Prerequisites

Securing Azure Web App Application Settings using KeyVault Secrets (Lab)
Interacting with Azure Cosmos DB from NextJS Web App using Application Settings (Lab)

Intended audience

Candidates for Azure Security Engineer Associate Exam (AZ-500)
Security Engineers
DevOps Engineers
Cloud Architects

What will be assessed

Azure Web Apps
Azure CosmosDB
Azure KeyVault

About the author

Parveen Singh, opens in a new tab

Cloud Lab Developer

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Parveen is an Azure advocate with previous experience in the professional consulting services industries. He specializes in infrastructure and DevOps with a wide range of knowledge in security and access management. He is also an Azure Certified - DevOps Engineer Expert, Security Engineer, Developer Associate, Administrator Associate, CompTIA Certified - Network+, Security+, and AWS Cloud Practitioner.
Parveen enjoys writing about cloud technologies and sharing the knowledge with the community to help students upskill in the cloud.

Covered topics

Development for Azure

Databases for Azure

Security for Azure