Using Azure Key Vault with Octopus

The blog post by Mark Harrison discusses a new step template for integrating Azure Key Vault with Octopus Deploy to retrieve secrets for deployments or runbooks. The step template utilizes the Az.KeyVault PowerShell module, which must be installed on the deployment target or worker. Authentication with Azure Key Vault is achieved through Azure Active Directory and a service principal. The template allows users to retrieve one or multiple secrets, create sensitive output variables, and optionally specify secret versions and output variable names. It provides features such as customizing the Az PowerShell module version and installation path, and options to print output variable names in the task log. The post emphasizes the ease of integrating Azure Key Vault with Octopus deployments to enhance security measures.