Hashicorp Vault behind IIS Last week I talked about Hashicorp Vault and how it could be used to store secrets. Today I will continue on the same line and show how we can host Vault behind IIS and use what we learnt in the previous post to retrieve secrets from ASP.NET Core. Setup Vault Read secrets from Vault from ASP.NET Core 1. Setup Vault Vault is a webserver which comes with a complete API.

Manage secrets with Hashicorp Vault During development it is common to save local connection string in the code via setting files. But when it comes the time to deploy, hosted environments should not have their secrets persisted as plain text in the code. Since those can’t be saved in the git repository, they have to be stored in a secure place where they can be managed easily, a vault. Hashicorp

Let’s Encrypt for ASP.NET Core application on IIS Few weeks ago we saw how we could generate a SSL cert for free using a browser based ACME implementation. While doing that, we had some manual process for the verification to happen, either by changing the DNS settings or making a key available on an endpoint and at the end we were handling the key to upload it to our server. Today we will see how

Estimating cloud infrastructure cost Few weeks ago I was tasked to estimate a cloud architecture with limited requirements. Today we will see the rules which can be followed in order to come up with a price tag. This post is composed by three parts: Defining the requirements Solution needs Price 1. Defining Requirements Before starting any estimation, it is important to get at least one

Remote PowerShell to Windows VM with WinRM The Remote Desktop Protocol is great to access remotely a Windows Server machine. It is great for actions requiring visual but for actions which can be taken from a PowerShell prompt within the server, it would be best to directly access to a remote PowerShell session from our local computer. Today we will see how we use the Windows Remote Management