Support for Azure Key Vault as Shard Map Manager

[tomkerkhove]

Are there plans to support Azure Key Vault as a Shard Map Manager?

This would allow to get rid of the database and securely store the connection strings to the shard.

[jaredmoo]

No plans for that. Could you elaborate a bit on how shard mappings would be stored in azure key vault?

[tomkerkhove]

Fair warning - I have no experience with using the library but this is mainly because we are now using Azure Key Vault to store the connection strings to our shards.

We basically go fetch the connection string in Azure Key Vault based on the shard key we use in the application. By doing this we can securely store the connection string and don't need a full blown DB to achieve this.

[jaredmoo]

I see. Storing the connection string in AKV is an interesting idea. I presume it would only support ListShardMap and point mappings and the key id would have to be based on the shard key.

[tomkerkhove]

Hm interesting, I'm not an expert with the library but is there a reason why I couldn't fully use Key Vault for everything?