Step-by-Step Guide for Integrating KeyVault with AKS Kubernetes Cluster

Ashish Agrawal
4 min readMay 3, 2023

Azure Key Vault is a cloud-based service that allows you to securely store and manage sensitive information, such as passwords, certificates, and encryption keys. Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system used to deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications. By integrating Key Vault with AKS Kubernetes, you can store and manage secrets securely and easily access them from your Kubernetes cluster. In this article, we will provide a step-by-step guide for integrating Key Vault with AKS Kubernetes.

Prerequisites

Before you begin integrating Key Vault with AKS Kubernetes, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:

  1. An Azure subscription: You will need an Azure subscription to create and manage Azure resources.
  2. An AKS Kubernetes cluster: You will need an AKS Kubernetes cluster created in your Azure subscription.
  3. A Key Vault: You will need a Key Vault created in your Azure subscription.

Step 1: Create a Service Principal

A service principal is an identity used to access Azure resources. To integrate Key Vault with AKS Kubernetes, you need to create a service principal with the necessary permissions to access Key…

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Ashish Agrawal

DevOps Practice Lead at BCS Technology |Episerver CMS | Full Stack Engineer | Cloud AZURE & AWS | Freelance Consultant