Explore the Azure App Configuration service
Azure App Configuration provides a service to centrally manage application settings and feature flags. Modern programs, especially programs running in a cloud, generally have many components that are distributed in nature. Spreading configuration settings across these components can lead to hard-to-troubleshoot errors during an application deployment. Use App Configuration to store all the settings for your application and secure their accesses in one place.
App Configuration offers the following benefits:
- A fully managed service that can be set up in minutes
- Flexible key representations and mappings
- Tagging with labels
- Point-in-time replay of settings
- Dedicated UI for feature flag management
- Comparison of two sets of configurations on custom-defined dimensions
- Enhanced security through Azure-managed identities
- Encryption of sensitive information at rest and in transit
- Native integration with popular frameworks
App Configuration complements Azure Key Vault, which is used to store application secrets. App Configuration makes it easier to implement the following scenarios:
- Centralize management and distribution of hierarchical configuration data for different environments and geographies
- Dynamically change application settings without the need to redeploy or restart an application
- Control feature availability in real-time
Use App Configuration
The easiest way to add an App Configuration store to your application is through a client library that Microsoft provides. Based on the programming language and framework, the following best methods are available to you.
| Programming language and framework | How to connect |
|---|---|
| .NET | App Configuration provider for .NET |
| ASP.NET Core | App Configuration provider for .NET |
| .NET Framework and ASP.NET | App Configuration builder for .NET |
| Java Spring | App Configuration provider for Spring Cloud |
| JavaScript/Node.js | App Configuration provider for JavaScript |
| Python | App Configuration provider for Python |
| Others | App Configuration REST API |