Before the release of .NET Core, developers used to store keys, connection strings, and other secrets in application configuration files. .NET Core provides a wide range of storage options to store this information and developers are only restricted to storing this information in web.config files, and now the information can be stored in JSON-based appsettings.json files, XML-based configuration files, or environment variables, and so on. Sometimes, when there is a big team and multiple developers are working on the same project, we don't want those keys to be shared among them. A good example is an e-mail gateway where developers use a third-party gateway such as Google, Hotmail, or Yahoo and use their login credentials to test it out.
.NET Core provides a Secret Manager Tool to store application secrets. It protects the values by storing them in a separate JSON file on the following path, which...
