Secret Rotation and Leak Response: Rotating Without Downtime, the First 60 Minutes After a Leak and Secretless Architecture
Seamless rotation treats two secrets as valid for a while: the new secret is added on the accepting side first, used once it has spread everywhere, and the old one is removed based on measurement. We rotate Bookstore's payment webhook secret with primary and secondary values without a restart, scope a leak with Vault's audit log, automate with Key Vault's SecretNearExpiry event, and reach a secretless architecture with zero secrets for Azure and database access.
14 Nov 2026
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