AppSettings and Secrets in ASP.NET Core

Understand AppSettings and learn how to secure your application secrets from development to production in ASP.NET Core

4.42 (576 reviews)

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What you will learn

AppSettings in .NET Core

Accessing Secrets in .NET Core

What are Application Secrets and why should you secure them?

Options Class

Switching Environments

Hierarchy for accessing secrets in .NET Core

User Secrets in .NET Core

Azure Key Vault

Why take this course?

Application Settings is a small piece of .NET Core application! But it is a very CRITICAL piece. Since you have all secrets and passwords.

Not knowing how to configure AppSettings would lead to a vulnerable application and it would be difficult to manage things once the application grows.

There are multiple ways to access your secrets in a .NET Core application, I will be walking you through all the ways in this course.

There is a certain hierarchy that is followed when it comes to a priority about which settings should be read first and knowing the correct order is critical. We will walk through all of that!

Losing control of production passwords, API keys, and other secrets can be extremely costly to any business. In this course, Securing Application Secrets in ASP.NET Core, you will learn how to keep secrets safe in development through to production.

This course will get you up and running with ASP.NET Core AppSecrets and Settings from basics all the way to completely securing them using Azure Key vaults.

Content

Section 1

Welcome

Secrets in Application

Why Appsecrets should be secured

Create Project

Add to Github

Section 2

Add SendGrid in AppSettings

Retrieve SendGrid Value from AppSettings

Sections in AppSettings

Another way to retrieve Sections in AppSettings

Assignment 1

Assignment 1 - GetValue and GetSection

IConfiguration in View

Section 3

Bind Class to App Settings Section

IOptions

Bind TwilioSettings in Startup Class File

Extension Method

Hierarchy and Limitations of Extension Method

Injecting Ioptions in View

Connection String

Section 4

Environment Specific AppSettings

User secrets- Theory

User Secrets

Environment Variables in LaunchSettings

Set Environment Variables in Console

Environment Variables on Machine

Command Line

Default Hierarchy

Custom Json File

Section 5

Azure Key Vault Overview

Create Azure Key Vault

Publish to Azure

Azure Key Vault localhost demo

Azure Application and KeyVault Link

Moving KeyVaultName to AppSettings

Reviews

Kiran

September 7, 2023

The course is good but it could be converted to the latest dot net framework, because it has different configurations due to this some of the settings which were discussed in this course are not available in current version of latest dot net which is again a problem for those who are trying them on the latest dot net.

Junaid

January 22, 2023

A very good course on AppSettings and how to secure your application secrets from development to production in ASP.NET Core. Easy to follow and learn. 5/5/

David

October 27, 2022

Lots of information in this training that I will never use such as the KeyVault. Was looking for the proper way to setup my Connection String in the AppSetting file and to connect to a Sql Server. This was not the correct training.

Mohd

July 28, 2022

Thanks for the clear, simple and straight forward explanation and implementation of AppSettings and secrets in ASP.NET core.

Jason

July 27, 2022

Yes, this was a good match for me. The tutor was great in showing the fundamentals of AppSettings Management as well as more advanced different options. Great to see too, the inclusion of an Azure service towards the end that many courses do not have.

Ricardo

March 1, 2022

Amazing course that explains all the possible ways to set up the appsettings file in a .Net Core project and also user secrets. In addition to this, we can also see different ways to configure the environment variables and how we can make our application more secure using Azure Key vault. A highly recommended course for those .Net developers who want to learn about secrets and Key vault.

Sarye

February 13, 2022

Very good, thank you. I am very interested by small courses like this one on specific APIs. Also, it you have time, it would be nice to add few videos at the end to update to the new KeyVault library package. The nuget home page for "Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.AzureKeyVault" says: This library has been replaced by the following new Azure SDK. Azure.Extensions.AspNetCore.Configuration.Secrets It is recommended that you move to the new package.

Santanu

February 10, 2022

Awesome course, learned so many new things on mechanism of appsettings.json, which is very useful to working as a developer. Thank you

Farah

February 7, 2022

Cours de très bonne qualité. Bien expliqué, le rythme est bien dosé. Le cours est bien découpé. On y apprend pas mal de choses sur la gestion des fichiers de configuration, des secrets, et de azure keyvault.

Bill

September 24, 2021

Nicely done. Suggestion for enhancement would be to include information on Azure App Config and how this can be integrated into the configuration pipeline.

Roman

May 28, 2021

perfectly explained, absolutely everything about the settings, ideal pace, everything with practical examples, highly recommended

AveryF

May 4, 2021

Not a minute wasted. Knowledgeable, Efficient and a skilled Presenter. Great demo coding and illustrations. Checked all the boxes. Thumbs Up!

Adam

December 24, 2020

Well done! Really walks you through the whole process of secrets management. Also helps to understand the whole mechanism of appsettings.json, which is helpful too. Very useful for a working ASP.NET developer.

Tonny

November 20, 2020

If you've ever heard the adage about there are many roads leading to Rome, this is the many roads leading to app settings