Key Vault Integration with AKS — Azure

Azure Key Vault allows you to securely access sensitive information from within your applications → Keys, secrets, and certificates are protected without you’re having to write the code yourself, and you can easily use them from your applications.

The Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver integrates secrets stores with Kubernetes through a Container Storage Interface (CSI) volume. If you integrate the Secrets Store CSI Driver with AKS enabled by Azure Arc, you can mount secrets, keys, and certificates as a volume.

The SecretProviderClass is a namespaced resource in the Secrets Store CSI Provider that is used to provide configurations and provider-specific parameters to the CSI provider.

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Managed identities use certificate-based authentication. Each managed identity’s credentials have an expiration of 90 days and are rolled after 45 days.

AKS uses both system-assigned and user-assigned managed identity types, and these identities are immutable.

Create Azure Resource Group

az group create --name keyvault-demo --location eastus

A resource group is a container that holds related resources for an Azure solution. The resource group can include all the resources for the solution or only those resources that you want to manage as a group.

Create an AKS cluster with Azure Key Vault provider for Secrets Store CSI Driver support

AKS to deploy, scale, and manage Docker containers and container-based applications across a cluster of container hosts.

az aks create --name keyvault-demo-cluster -g keyvault-demo --node-count 1 --enable-addons azure-keyvault-secrets-provider --enable-oidc-issuer --enable-workload-identity

Microsoft Azure Key Vault is a cloud-based security service offered by Microsoft as part of its Azure platform. It provides a secure and centralized storage solution for cryptographic keys and secrets, such…