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Version: v1.1.0

Authentication

As of today we support a few authentication mechanisms.

Managed Service Identity#

You can use Managed Service Identity to delegate the authentication to Azure via ManagedServiceIdentityAuthentication.

This is the recommended approach to interact with Azure Key Vault.

var vaultAuthentication = new ManagedServiceIdentityAuthentication();var vaultConfiguration = new KeyVaultConfiguration(keyVaultUri);var keyVaultSecretProvider = new KeyVaultSecretProvider(vaultAuthentication, vaultConfiguration);

If you require more control over the authentication mechanism you can optionally specify an AzureServiceTokenProvider connection string &/or Azure AD instance.

var connectionString = Configuration.GetConnectionString("Arcus:MSI:ConnectionString");var azureAdInstance = Configuration.GetValue<string>("Arcus:MSI:AzureAdInstance");var vaultAuthentication = new ManagedServiceIdentityAuthentication(connectionString, azureAdInstance);var vaultConfiguration = new KeyVaultConfiguration(keyVaultUri);var keyVaultSecretProvider = new KeyVaultSecretProvider(vaultAuthentication, vaultConfiguration);

See Service-to-service authentication to Azure Key Vault using .NET - Connection String Support for supported connection strings and National clouds - Azure AD authentication endpoints for valid azure AD instances

Service Principle#

Authentication via username and password is supported with the ServicePrincipalAuthentication.

var clientId = Configuration.GetValue<string>("Arcus:ServicePrincipal:ClientId");var clientKey = Configuration.GetValue<string>("Arcus:ServicePrincipal:AccessKey");
var vaultAuthentication = new ServicePrincipalAuthentication(clientId, clientKey);var vaultConfiguration = new KeyVaultConfiguration(keyVaultUri);var keyVaultSecretProvider = new KeyVaultSecretProvider(vaultAuthentication, vaultConfiguration);

Certificate#

Authentication via client ID and certificate is supported with the CertificateBasedAuthentication.

var clientId = Configuration.GetValue<string>("Arcus:ServicePrincipal:ClientId");X509Certificate2 certificate = ...
var vaultAuthentication = new CertificateBasedAuthentication(clientId, certificate);var vaultConfiguration = new KeyVaultConfiguration(keyVaultUri);var keyVaultSecretProvider = new KeyVaultSecretProvider(vaultAuthentication, vaultConfiguration);