I think you and I both know that it's a bad idea to store any sort of credentials or secrets in plain text, such as in configuration files or code.

With PowerShell, we've had various ways to store credentials, typically by saving the credential as an encrypted xml file on the file system, or using a similar method.

In 2021, Microsoft released a new PowerShell module that abstracts secret management into consistent cmdlets, and lets you use these same cmdlets across different secret vault providers.

Grab your favorite festive beverage and join me for a few minutes, as I'd love to introduce you to these cmdlets, and hopefully you can go forward in to 2022 with some great use cases for leveraging the new SecretManagement PowerShell module.