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Quickstart - Set & view Azure Key Vault certificates with Azure CLI
Quickstart showing how to set and retrieve a certificate from Azure Key Vault using Azure CLI
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01/30/2024
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Quickstart: Set and retrieve a certificate from Azure Key Vault using Azure CLI

In this quickstart, you create a key vault in Azure Key Vault with Azure CLI. Azure Key Vault is a cloud service that works as a secure secrets store. You can securely store keys, passwords, certificates, and other secrets. For more information on Key Vault you may review the Overview. Azure CLI is used to create and manage Azure resources using commands or scripts. Once that you have completed that, you will store a certificate.

[!INCLUDE quickstarts-free-trial-note]

[!INCLUDE azure-cli-prepare-your-environment.md]

  • This quickstart requires version 2.0.4 or later of the Azure CLI. If using Azure Cloud Shell, the latest version is already installed.

Create a resource group

[!INCLUDE Create a resource group]

Create a key vault

[!INCLUDE Create a key vault]

Add a certificate to Key Vault

To add a certificate to the vault, you just need to take a couple of additional steps. This certificate could be used by an application.

Type the commands below to create a self-signed certificate with default policy called ExampleCertificate :

az keyvault certificate create --vault-name "<your-unique-keyvault-name>" -n ExampleCertificate -p "$(az keyvault certificate get-default-policy)"

You can now reference this certificate that you added to Azure Key Vault by using its URI. Use https://<your-unique-keyvault-name>.vault.azure.net/certificates/ExampleCertificate to get the current version.

To view previously stored certificate:


az keyvault certificate show --name "ExampleCertificate" --vault-name "<your-unique-keyvault-name>"

Now, you have created a Key Vault, stored a certificate, and retrieved it.

Clean up resources

[!INCLUDE Create a key vault]

Next steps

In this quickstart you created a Key Vault and stored a certificate in it. To learn more about Key Vault and how to integrate it with your applications, continue on to the articles below.