Everyone knows it’s completely normal nowadays to have your website loaded over https. Troy Hunt explains why. There are quite some examples out there on how to use Let’s Encrypt certificates on your Azure web app, see this one by Henry Been for example. For most of us that’s a perfect and free solutions. It doesn’t work for all of us however.

Azure Cloud Service was one of the earliest Platform as a Service offerings by Microsoft Azure. With Cloud Services you can run web applications or run background applications. Since it is a PaaS offering, you dot not need to worry about the issues that comes with IaaS, patching for example and they offer a lot of flexibility. They are not officially deprecated, though Microsoft is pushing for the use of other PaaS offerings.

Azure KeyVault is a great Azure offerring that allows you to store for example secrets or certificates. You are currently looking at the first post out of a series of posts on how to grab secrets or certificates from KeyVault in your web applications. This post wil focus on creating the KeyVault, giving access to you Azure Web App and retrieving a secret in two different ways. I will be using an ASP.