PowerShell Secrets Management – Part 1: Introduction

Storing secrets in scripts is a no-go since forever and therefor many workarounds exist to store credentials, API-keys and other secrets somewhere else to prevent them from getting stolen or compromised. I personally prefer Export/Import-CliXML to store credentials on disk (on a secure place) as they use some user-key for encryption. But with PS Core and multiplatform support, PowerShell needs a better way to allow secure scripting which works also on all three platforms Windows, Linux and macOs. To overcome this, Microsoft is developing the SecretManagement Module and some modules to store secrets, i.e the SecretStore Module. As Microsoft announced … PowerShell Secrets Management – Part 1: Introduction weiterlesen