Using Azure Key Vault in a Pipeline is cool, but it is less secure. The Key Vault setup Have you tried the Key Vault Step in an Azure DevOps Pipeline? If you haven’t, please follow these awesome guides: Azure DevOps Labs. Using secrets from Azure Key Vault in a pipeline Tobias Zimmergren. Using Azure Key Vault Secrets in Azure DevOps pipelines The steps described in these guides are easy, but that effort made me think about the first pair of pros and cons.