Dapr Secrets Management .NET SDK on Dapr Docs

How to: Manage secrets with the Dapr Secrets Management .NET SDK

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Let’s walk through how to retrieve secrets from a Dapr secret store using the Dapr.SecretsManagement package. We’ll use the sample project provided here for the following demonstration, covering direct secret retrieval, bulk secret retrieval, and strongly-typed access via the included source generator. In this guide, you will:

Deploy a .NET Web API application (SecretManagementSample)
Utilize the Dapr .NET Secrets Management SDK to retrieve individual and bulk secrets
Use the source generator to create a strongly-typed interface for your secret store

In the .NET example project:

DaprSecretsManagementClient usage

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Lifetime management

A DaprSecretsManagementClient is a subset of the Dapr client that is dedicated to interacting with the Dapr Secrets API. It can be registered alongside a DaprClient and other Dapr clients without issue.

It maintains access to networking resources in the form of TCP sockets used to communicate with the Dapr sidecar and implements IDisposable to support the eager cleanup of resources.

For best performance, create a single long-lived instance of DaprSecretsManagementClient and provide access to that shared instance throughout your application. DaprSecretsManagementClient instances are thread-safe and intended to be shared.