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Getting secrets from Key Vault in YAML pipeline

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Andrew_Redman
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Aug 19, 2022
Keeping your connection strings and secrets secure is not necessarily only a concern of just one type of industry.  The best practice would be to keep security at the top of your mind regardless of i...
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_MartinB
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Jul 04, 2023

Hi Andrew_Redman ,
Thanks for the useful article.

We use Key Vault also as configuration store. Meaning we don't store actual secrets in it but environment specific (non-sensitive) configuration items.

For those Key Vault entries the secure string obfuscation in Azure DevOps is rather annoying (because it makes troubleshooting harder).

Is there some way to deactivate the obfuscation for Key Vault entries following a specific naming pattern?