This is the second and probably final post in this series. If you haven’t read the first post I would highly recommend it. When we last left our erstwhile heroes, they had successfully setup the Azure authentication method on a Vault server and created a policy associated with a role in the Azure auth method. The policy grants access to a key-value store called webkv. Now comes the fun part, how does an Azure VM go about using the Azure auth method to access the secrets stored in webkv? So glad you asked!

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I am currently working on a Getting Started course for HashiCorp’s Vault product. There was a pretty cool demo I put together for using Azure AD as an authentication source for Vault, but unfortunately I had to cut it for sake of time. I didn’t want it to go to waste though; so I figured I’d write about it here instead. Here’s what we’re going to do. Use the Managed Service Identity feature in Azure to give an Azure VM permissions to access secrets in Vault. This is the sort of thing that could be applied to anything that can receive an MSI in Azure, including App Service, Functions, VMSS, and more!

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