Q2 AKS Domain 1 · 20–25% of exam

An AKS cluster must access Azure Key Vault secrets from pods without storing credentials. Which solution should you use?

  1. A Mount secrets as ConfigMaps
  2. B Azure Key Vault Provider for Secrets Store CSI Driver (correct answer)
  3. C Store secrets in Kubernetes Secrets manually
  4. D Use environment variables with az keyvault secret show

Shortcut: The Secrets Store CSI Driver with the Azure Key Vault Provider mounts secrets, keys, and certificates from Key Vault as files in pods, using workload identity or managed identity.