Consuming secrets

Every provider implements ISecretProvider which makes it easy to use a consistent flow, regardless of the provider.

Secrets can be easily retrieved as follows:

Secret secret = await secretProvider.GetSecretAsync("EventGrid-AuthKey");
string secretValue = secret.Value;string secretVersion = secret.Version;DateTimeOffset? expirationDate = secret.Expires;

Raw secrets

In some scenarios you'd like to just get the secret value directly without any metadata. This is possible by calling the ...Raw... variants on the ISecretProvider implementations.

string secretValue = await secretProvider.GetRawSecretAsync("EventGrid-AuthKey");

Caching Secrets

Some secret providers recommend to cache secrets for a while to avoid hitting the service limitations.

We provide a CachedSecretProvider which allows the secrets to be cached in memory for a certain amount of time.

var cachedSecretProvider = new CachedSecretProvider(secretProvider);Secret secret = await cachedSecretProvider.GetSecretAsync("EventGrid-AuthKey");

If you prefer a more fluent approach you can also use our WithCaching extension.

var cachedSecretProvider = new KeyVaultSecretProvider(vaultAuthentication, vaultConfiguration)                                    .WithCaching();Secret secret = await cachedSecretProvider.GetSecretAsync("EventGrid-AuthKey");

Configuring the cache

By default, retrieved secrets are cached for 5 minutes, but you can configure this yourself.

var cacheConfiguration = new CacheConfiguration(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10)); // Optional: Default is 5 minvar cachedSecretProvider = new CachedSecretProvider(secretProvider, cacheConfiguration);Secret secret = await cachedSecretProvider.GetSecretAsync("EventGrid-AuthKey");

Bypassing cached secrets

In some scenarios you'd like to skip the cache and retrieve the secret by looking it up in the secret-store, instead of retrieving it from the cache.

This is important because in certain scenarios your secrets can be rolled and thus you will be revoked access. After a hard refresh you can use the latest secret again and proceed your work.

Secret secret = await cachedSecretProvider.GetSecretAsync("EventGrid-AuthKey", ignoreCache: true);

Invalidates a secret from the cache

In some scenarios you'd like to remove a cache entry so that the secret will be retrieved from the provider when a new lookup will be done.

This is useful for scenario's where the secret is updated and you need to tell the cache somehow.

await cachedSecretProvider.InvalidateSecretAsync("EventGrid-AuthKey");