Introduction
Last week the blog post “Simplifying security for serverless and web apps with Azure Functions and App Service” was published. In essence, it talks about how you can integrate Azure Functions with Azure Key Vault in order to retrieve secrets and import them into the application settings (being environment variables). You can do this in a secure manner, by providing the Azure Functions platform with a Managed Service Identity, and granting its underlying service principle with (limited: list & read) rights to the Key Vault.
Let’s take a look!
The first thing we’ll need to do, is to enable the “Managed service identity” for our Azure Function plan. Let’s browse to our Azure Function plan, and then select “Platform features”.
Karim Vaes 