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Santhosh Thomas
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How To Store Certificate (.pem) in Azure Keyvault using Secrets and fetch values from secrets into pem file using python

#azure #python #keyvault #certificate

Convert .pem Certificate file into base64 using certutil 

certutil -encode filename.cer newfilename.cer
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  1. Go to azure portal

  2. Select ketvault service

  3. Create a new keyvault

  4. Select secrets from setting on sidepanel

  5. Create a new secret

  6. Copy paste base 64 into secret value and save it

### Python code to fetch certificate value from keyvault and store into a pem file

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential from azure.keyvault.secrets import SecretClient credentials = DefaultAzureCredential() secret_client = SecretClient(vault_url=key_vault_url, credential=credentials) cert_value = secret_client.get_secret("Certificate").value with open('certificate.pem','w') as fopen: fopen.write(base64.b64decode(cert_value).decode())
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