HashiCorp's Vault is a secrets management platform that stores static secrets and provisions dynamic, short-lived secrets. To reduce operational overhead associated with Vault cluster availability, it can use Microsoft Azure managed identities to automatically obtain the unseal key from Azure Key Vault. This eliminates the need for operators to manually unseal Vault after server restarts or patching operations. The process allows Vault to authenticate against Azure and gain access to the unseal key without requiring sensitive parameters like client ID and secret in the seal stanza, making it a more secure and streamlined solution.