Manage Disk Encryption Keys For Azure Virtual Machines

 Introduction

In this article, I will guide you to manage disk encryption keys for Azure virtual machine by using Azure Key Vault, Azure Key Vault for managing encryption keys that can be used for encrypting our data disk

You have to do the following steps to configure the disk encryption keys

1. Create an Azure Key Vault
2. Generate the Key
3. Give Control access to the key Vault
4. Create a Disk Encryption Set

Step 1. Create an Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault is a cloud-based key management solution that helps secure cryptographic keys, passwords, and certificates that can be stored in a vault.

Sign in to the Azure portal using your Microsoft credential at https://portal.azure.com/

Select All Services

Use the keywords to search the Key Vault

Select the Key Vault from the showing listed

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