How to extract Secret key from Azure key vault in Azure Function App on Nodejs stack

Question

I have created an Azure Function app in Nodejs version 12. My hosting environment is windows. What is the easiest way to capture the username and password which are saved in Azure key vault inside my function. Also I am using Inline code Editor so how should be capture the credentials in code.

Thanks

Answer 1

The node SDK used in above answer is going to be deprecated and won't have new feature and releases. Instead, the new versions are released here:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@azure/keyvault-secrets

Here are the detailed steps to retrieve the secret value for your reference.

1.Enable system assigned managed identity in your function.

2.Add this service principal to the access policy of your key vault.

3.Install the dependencies to your function.

  "dependencies": {
    "@azure/identity": "^1.0.3",
    "@azure/keyvault-secrets": "^4.0.4"
  }

4.Here is my testing function code

module.exports = async function (context, req) {

const { DefaultAzureCredential } = require("@azure/identity");
const { SecretClient } = require("@azure/keyvault-secrets");
const keyVaultName = "tonykeyvault20190801";
const KVUri = "https://" + keyVaultName + ".vault.azure.net";

const credential = new DefaultAzureCredential();
const client = new SecretClient(KVUri, credential);

const retrievedSecret = await client.getSecret("username");
const username=retrievedSecret.value;
context.log(username);
  context.res = {
      body: username 
  };
}

5.The execution result.