Don’t want to read all this? There are two dotnet interactive notebooks here with the relevant information for you to use.
https://beard.media/dotnetnotebooks
Jaap is awesome
I have to start here. For the longest time, whenever anyone has asked me how I store my credentials for use in my demos and labs I have always referred them to Jaap Brassers t blog post
https://www.jaapbrasser.com/quickly-and-securely-storing-your-credentials-powershell/
Joel is also awesome!
When people wanted a method of storing credentials that didnt involve files on disk I would suggest Joel Bennett’s t module BetterCredentials which uses the Windows Credential Manager
https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/BetterCredentials/4.5
Microsoft? Also awesome!
In February, Microsoft released the SecretManagement module for preview.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/secrets-management-development-release/
Sydney t gave a presentation at the European PowerShell Conference which you can watch on Youtube.
Good Bye Import-CliXML
So now I say, it is time to stop using Import-Clixml for storing secrets and use the Microsoft.PowerShell.SecretsManagement module instead for storing your secrets.
Notebooks are as good as blog posts
I love notebooks and to show some people who had asked about storing secrets, I have created some. So, because I am efficient lazy I have embedded them here for you to see. You can find them in my Jupyter Notebook repository
https://beard.media/dotnetnotebooks
in the Secrets folder
Installing and using the Secrets Management Module
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Using the Secret Management Module in your scripts
Here is a simple example of using the module to provide the credential for a docker container and then to dbatools to query the container
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Rob,
Thank you. With this process only way to open these applications under admin account is to use ADS notebook with PS kernel?
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When installing the module and after Get-SecretVault I don’t see anything and I’m not able to add secrets.
is there a way of creating a vault, something did go wrong I guess….
The module has been updated, take a look at the docs for examples