Writing the SecretsManager

In this section, we are going to update our SecretsManager class so that we can safely obtain secrets.

Note

Our development environment will use a secrets.json file. This is very serious as private credentials have been found and accessed on source code hosting sites such as GitHub before now, and we don't want to be the ones responsible for checking in code that contains secrets that should be kept private.

Follow these steps:

1. Add the following NuGet packages:

   Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration
   Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.JsonFile
   Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.EnvironmentVariables
   Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.UserSecrets

We need these packages so that we can configure the project for user secrets and appsettings.json.

2. Open the SecretsManager class and add the following using statements:

   using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
   using System;
   using System.IO;

We need these using statements for our...