Introduction

kvs-cache is a command line tool for browsing Azure Key Vault secrets as quickly and as easily as possible.
Information about secrets, once cached locally, can be instantly browsed.
Pressing Enter on a given secret calls Azure to get the secret value and copy it to the clipboard.
Note that:

• secret values are not cached locally nor displayed on the screen
• you can get the clipboard contents and paste it wherever you need

kvs-cache is written using .NET 8 and C# 11.

Usage

1. Clone the repo
2. Execute a command line / shell window
3. Check if you have .NET 8: dotnet --version, if not, install .NET 8 SDK first
4. Go to the repo folder in the command line / shell window
5. Login to Azure az login
6. Go down one more folder cd kvs-cache
7. Restore packages using dotnet restore
8. Run kvs-cache using dotnet run

General functionalities

1. Works as a console application
2. Information browsing / searching
   • At start it finds all Azure subscriptions you can access
   • Allows to browse and drill down/up through subscriptions, key vaults, and secrets
   • Allows for instant filtering by entering word or words to be searched for
3. Caching
   • Caches places you visit for immediate access next time
   • Displays age of cache
   • Allows to refresh current level (Ctrl-R)
4. Get secret values
   • Get value of a selected secret and copy it to clipboard

More information

• Licenses of libraries used by KvsCache (thank you to all authors and contributors!)
• Licence of KvsCache
• ReleaseNotes
• TO DO