Azure portal Template Deployment not supporting Keyvault references

Question

I have a set of resources and want to deploy them using Template Deployment feature in Azure portal. In my parameters file, I have few references to parameters in Key Vault as mentioned here. When deploying the template in Azure portal (clicking on Deploy a custom template) and supplying these values, the portal still asks for these parameters explicitly which I definitely cannot provide in plain text.

When using the same resources.json and parameters.json file in powershell, it works fine.Is the feature of KeyVault references currently not supported in Template Deployment done through portal ?

Answer 1

Yes, this is the case, but you can workaround that by wrapping you template with another template and that template will "get" the reference and pass it to the actual template.

reference: https://github.com/4c74356b41/bbbb-is-the-word/blob/master/_arm/parent.json#L151