PollyAzureKeyVault 1.0.0

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PollyAzureKeyVault

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Polly v8 resilience for Azure.Security.KeyVault.Secrets — add retry, timeout, and circuit-breaker to any Azure Key Vault operation in two lines.

var secretClient = new SecretClient(new Uri("https://my-vault.vault.azure.net/"), credential);

var resilient = secretClient.WithPolly(pipeline => pipeline
    .AddRetry(new RetryStrategyOptions
    {
        MaxRetryAttempts = 3,
        Delay = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2),
        BackoffType = DelayBackoffType.Exponential,
        UseJitter = true,
        ShouldHandle = KeyVaultTransientErrors.IsTransient,
    })
    .AddTimeout(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10)));

var secret = await resilient.GetSecretAsync("my-secret");

Why PollyAzureKeyVault?

Azure Key Vault is a hard dependency for most production apps — connection failures at startup or runtime cause outages. This library adds Polly v8 resilience without boilerplate:

Problem Solution
HTTP 429 throttling (Key Vault has strict rate limits) Caught by KeyVaultTransientErrors.IsTransient
HTTP 503 during Key Vault maintenance / regional failover Caught by KeyVaultTransientErrors.IsTransient
HTTP 504 gateway timeout Caught by KeyVaultTransientErrors.IsTransient
HttpRequestException network failure Caught by KeyVaultTransientErrors.IsTransient
TaskCanceledException slow response Caught by KeyVaultTransientErrors.IsTransient
Cascading failures propagating to the rest of the app Wrap with AddCircuitBreaker

Installation

dotnet add package PollyAzureKeyVault
dotnet add package Polly.Core

Quick-start

1. Manual wiring

using Azure.Identity;
using Azure.Security.KeyVault.Secrets;
using Polly;
using Polly.Retry;

var credential = new DefaultAzureCredential();
var client = new SecretClient(new Uri("https://my-vault.vault.azure.net/"), credential);

var resilient = client.WithPolly(p => p
    .AddRetry(new RetryStrategyOptions
    {
        MaxRetryAttempts = 3,
        Delay = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2),
        BackoffType = DelayBackoffType.Exponential,
        UseJitter = true,
        ShouldHandle = KeyVaultTransientErrors.IsTransient,
    }));

// Typed convenience methods
var secret = await resilient.GetSecretAsync("connection-string");
Console.WriteLine(secret.Value.Value);

2. Dependency injection

// Program.cs / Startup.cs
builder.Services.AddSingleton(new SecretClient(
    new Uri("https://my-vault.vault.azure.net/"),
    new DefaultAzureCredential()));

builder.Services.AddPollyAzureKeyVault(pipeline => pipeline
    .AddRetry(new RetryStrategyOptions
    {
        MaxRetryAttempts = 3,
        Delay = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2),
        BackoffType = DelayBackoffType.Exponential,
        UseJitter = true,
        ShouldHandle = KeyVaultTransientErrors.IsTransient,
    })
    .AddTimeout(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10)));

// Inject ResilientSecretClient into your services
public class SecretsService(ResilientSecretClient client)
{
    public async Task<string> GetConnectionStringAsync(CancellationToken ct) =>
        (await client.GetSecretAsync("db-connection-string", cancellationToken: ct)).Value.Value;
}

3. With a URI shortcut (registers SecretClient automatically)

builder.Services.AddPollyAzureKeyVault(
    new Uri("https://my-vault.vault.azure.net/"),
    pipeline => pipeline
        .AddRetry(new RetryStrategyOptions
        {
            MaxRetryAttempts = 5,
            ShouldHandle = KeyVaultTransientErrors.IsTransient,
        }));

Transient error reference

// Use in any Polly strategy:
ShouldHandle = KeyVaultTransientErrors.IsTransient
Condition Why it's transient
RequestFailedException (HTTP 429) Key Vault rate limit — back off and retry
RequestFailedException (HTTP 503) Vault maintenance or regional failover
RequestFailedException (HTTP 504) Proxy or load balancer timed out
HttpRequestException Network failure
TaskCanceledException Request timed out in transit

Handling only 429s with a longer back-off

.AddRetry(new RetryStrategyOptions
{
    ShouldHandle = new PredicateBuilder()
        .Handle<RequestFailedException>(ex => ex.Status == 429),
    MaxRetryAttempts = 5,
    Delay = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10),
    BackoffType = DelayBackoffType.Exponential,
})

Advanced pipelines

Full production pipeline

client.WithPolly(p => p
    .AddTimeout(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30))
    .AddRetry(new RetryStrategyOptions
    {
        MaxRetryAttempts = 4,
        Delay = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2),
        BackoffType = DelayBackoffType.Exponential,
        UseJitter = true,
        ShouldHandle = KeyVaultTransientErrors.IsTransient,
        OnRetry = args =>
        {
            logger.LogWarning("Key Vault retry {Attempt} — {Exception}",
                args.AttemptNumber, args.Outcome.Exception?.Message);
            return ValueTask.CompletedTask;
        },
    })
    .AddCircuitBreaker(new CircuitBreakerStrategyOptions
    {
        FailureRatio = 0.5,
        SamplingDuration = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30),
        MinimumThroughput = 5,
        BreakDuration = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30),
        ShouldHandle = KeyVaultTransientErrors.IsTransient,
    }));

Arbitrary operations via ExecuteAsync

// Use ExecuteAsync<T> for any SecretClient method not covered by typed overloads
var props = await resilient.ExecuteAsync(
    (c, ct) => c.GetDeletedSecretAsync("old-secret", ct));

API reference

ResilientSecretClient

Member Description
Inner The underlying SecretClient
GetSecretAsync(name, version?, ct) Retrieves a secret through the pipeline
SetSecretAsync(name, value, ct) Creates or updates a secret through the pipeline
StartDeleteSecretAsync(name, ct) Begins deletion through the pipeline
ExecuteAsync<T>(operation, ct) Runs any SecretClient operation through the pipeline

KeyVaultTransientErrors

Member Description
IsTransient PredicateBuilder for 429/503/504 RequestFailedException, HttpRequestException, TaskCanceledException
StatusCodes IReadOnlySet<int>{429, 503, 504}

Extension methods

Method Description
client.WithPolly(pipeline) Wraps a SecretClient with a pre-built ResiliencePipeline
client.WithPolly(configure) Builds a pipeline inline and wraps the client

DI extensions

Method Description
services.AddPollyAzureKeyVault(configure) Registers ResiliencePipeline + ResilientSecretClient (requires SecretClient already in DI)
services.AddPollyAzureKeyVault(uri, configure) Registers SecretClient with DefaultAzureCredential, then pipeline + resilient client

Target frameworks

Framework Supported
.NET 6
.NET 8
.NET 9
Package Description
PollyAzureBlob Polly v8 for Azure Blob Storage
PollyAzureServiceBus Polly v8 for Azure Service Bus
PollyCosmosDb Polly v8 for Azure Cosmos DB
PollyElasticsearch Polly v8 for Elastic.Clients.Elasticsearch
PollyRedis Polly v8 for StackExchange.Redis
PollyEFCore Polly v8 for Entity Framework Core
PollyDapper Polly v8 for Dapper
PollyMongo Polly v8 for MongoDB
PollyNpgsql Polly v8 for Npgsql (PostgreSQL)
PollySqlClient Polly v8 for Microsoft.Data.SqlClient
PollyGrpc Polly v8 for gRPC
PollyRabbitMQ Polly v8 for RabbitMQ
PollyKafka Polly v8 for Confluent.Kafka
PollySignalR Polly v8 for SignalR
PollyOpenAI Polly v8 for OpenAI .NET SDK
PollyMediatR Polly v8 for MediatR
PollyHealthChecks Polly v8 for ASP.NET Core Health Checks
PollyBackoff Polly v8 backoff helpers

License

MIT © Justin Bannister

Product Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
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Version Downloads Last Updated
1.0.0 49 6/24/2026

1.0.0: Initial release. ResilientSecretClient wraps SecretClient in a Polly v8 ResiliencePipeline. Includes KeyVaultTransientErrors helper with pre-built ShouldHandle predicate covering RequestFailedException (429, 503, 504) and transient network errors. Works with any Azure.Security.KeyVault.* client. Supports net6.0, net8.0, and net9.0.