Microsoft Azure Key Vault is one of several key management solutions in Azure, and helps solve the following problems:

• Secrets Management - Azure Key Vault can be used to Securely store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets
• Key Management - Azure Key Vault can be used as a Key Management solution. Azure Key Vault makes it easy to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data.
• Certificate Management - Azure Key Vault lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer (TLS/SSL) certificates for use with Azure and your internal connected resources.

This library supports managing Microsoft Azure Key Vault resources.

This library follows thenew Azure SDK guidelines, and provides many core capabilities:

- Support MSAL.NET, Azure.Identity is out of box for supporting MSAL.NET.- Support [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/) for distributed tracing.- HTTP pipeline with custom policies.- Better error-handling.- Support uniform telemetry across all languages.

Getting started

Install the package

Install the Microsoft Azure Key Vault management library for .NET withNuGet:

dotnet add package Azure.ResourceManager.KeyVault

Prerequisites

• You must have anAzure subscription.

Authenticate the Client

To create an authenticated client and start interacting with Microsoft Azure resources, see thequickstart guide here.

Key concepts

Key concepts of the Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET can be foundhere..

Documentation

Documentation is available to help you learn how to use this package:

• Quickstart.
• API References.
• Authentication.

Examples

Code samples for using the management library for .NET can be found in the following locations:

• .NET Management Library Code Samples

Troubleshooting

• File an issue viaGitHub Issues.
• Checkprevious questions or ask new ones on Stack Overflow using Azure and .NET tags.

Next steps

For more information about Microsoft Azure SDK, seethis website.

Contributing

For details on contributing to this repository, see thecontributingguide.

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributionsrequire you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaringthat you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to useyour contribution. For details, visithttps://cla.microsoft.com.

When you submit a pull request, a CLA-bot will automatically determinewhether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately(for example, label, comment). Follow the instructions provided by thebot. You'll only need to do this action once across all repositoriesusing our CLA.

This project has adopted theMicrosoft Open Source Code of Conduct. Formore information, see theCode of Conduct FAQ or contactopencode@microsoft.com with any other questions or comments.