Key Vault Console Port
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In my personal workflow we use Azure and its services, which means Azure Key Vault is our default secrets manager. In our different envs we’re storing a lot of secrets, probably too many, and searching them can be a real pain. The Azure portal UI doesn’t give the greatest options when it comes to filtering and search. Probably a sign that it’s not designed as a catch-all, but that’s a different problem.
Because of this I decided to write a simple .NET CLI application to make finding secrets a little easier. It’s a read-only lookup tool that uses your Azure identity to see what you have access to. I had three goals to make lookups faster and easier.
- Lazily load the list so flipping through the results is easier
- Add search functionality
- Star frequently looked-up secrets for quick access
The Azure SDK is similar to its UI here: there’s no search and only basic pagination, so I had to add some additional logic around those to get the user experience I wanted. Being a .NET shop I defaulted to writing the console app in .NET using Spectre for the TUI - which turned out great.
Needless to say this is a company application, but I wanted to take what I did and port it over to a TypeScript version. I’ve been writing more applications in TypeScript to keep my general knowledge up to date outside of .NET. I ended up using OpenTUI for the TUI and the Microsoft packages for the identity logic. It’s pretty basic but extremely handy.
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Rendered from mock data, not a real vault.
