Azure Key Vault Secrets Integration with Azure DevOps | Secure CI/CD using Variable Groups & YAML

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Securing sensitive information is a critical part of modern DevOps practices. In this video, you will learn how to integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps to protect secrets, passwords, and connection strings in your CI/CD pipelines. 🚀 🔹 What You’ll Learn: 1️⃣ Why securing secrets is essential in DevOps workflows 2️⃣ How to set up and configure Azure Key Vault 3️⃣ Linking Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps using Variable Groups 4️⃣ Building a YAML pipeline with Key Vault integration 5️⃣ Best practices for enterprise-grade security in Azure DevOps We’ll cover both the concepts and a hands-on lab, including a comparison of Workload Identity Federation vs Service Principal (SPN) approaches for authentication. 📌 GitHub Example Repo: https://github.com/AzureCloudAcademy/Labs This session is part of the Azure Cloud Zero to Hero Full Course (AZ-104 & DevOps), where we go through every concept in a simple, practical, and beginner-friendly way. Whether you’re new to IT, moving into Cloud/DevOps, or preparing for Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-900, AZ-400), this course will help you. 👉 Stay tuned for upcoming lessons where we dive deeper into real-world DevOps automation, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, FinOps, and more! 🔹 Connect with me: 🌐 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/azure-cloud-academy/about/?viewAsMember=true https://www.linkedin.com/in/gopal-meena-359b5b197/ 📌 GitHub: https://github.com/AzureCloudAcademy/Labs