Way of authorising access to Key Vault through Azure role assignments, for instance Key Vault Secrets User, in place of vault access policies.
Also called Key Vault.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Azure RBAC permission model in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Access policies
Older permission model for Key Vault, now superseded by the Azure RBAC model.
- Role
How an actor normally or expectedly behaves, or the part a person takes in a process. A single actor may hold more than one role.
- Key Vault Secrets User
Under the Key Vault RBAC model, this role lets an identity read the contents of secrets.