Using a key vault for the client id and client secret

Applies to

Akumina 4.1.1901.0110 and later

Introduction

This article details how to configure the Akumina App Manager to obtain the client id and client secret from a key vault.

Assumptions

It is assumed that you have the ClientId and ClientSecret keys from the web.config file.

Add the client id and secret to the key vault

In the Azure key vault, create a new secret. For the Value, set it to be:

{"ClientId":"<value>","ClientSecret":"<value>"}

NOTE: This is case sensitive.

With the respective values for ClientId and ClientSecret.

Edit the config file

Add the following key into appsettings, using the key vault url as the value:

<add key="akumina:SpClientIdSecretKeyVaultUri" value="<keyvaulturi>"/>

Remove the client id and secret values from the web.config

In the web.config file, remove the values present in the ClientId and ClientSecret keys.

<add key="ClientId" value="" />
<add key="ClientSecret" value="" />