Using GitHub Environments approvals without the ability to self approve
While developing code, you apply the best practices, like working from a short-lived feature branch and performing a pull request to the main branch when you...
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Annotate a release in Application Insights using GitHub Actions with Bash
In 2017, I already blogged about sending a release annotation to Application Insights. This graphical indication gives an excellent overview of when new rele...
Use managed identity to store data in storage account queue from API Management
In a previous post, I described how to create a SharedKey which could be used to drop data directly into a storage account queue from API management. Althoug...
Simple OAuth2 API authentication with token caching and refetching in an Azure Function using IdentityModel and Refit
Connecting to an HTTP API is tricky enough, let alone handling the authentication to it. Many modern APIs allow you to provide an authentication key in the h...
Use DefaultAzureCredential to securely connect to Azure services from Visual Studio
When you want to connect to an Azure service, you want to use a secure way for the authentication. One of the best techniques is to use a managed identity. Y...
Provision an Azure Function plan with a subnet using Bicep
In a recent project, I need an Azure Function hosted inside a subnet. To have vnet support, I need to use a premium plan, and I wanted to use Linux hosting a...
Link Application Insights to Azure API Management using Bicep
As it is good practice to monitor your system, I also wanted this to include the API Management side. It is allowing me to see the failed request in more det...
Roll out a definition for an API management operation using Bicep
I needed to roll out individual operations via infrastructure as code principles for API management in Azure using Bicep in a recent project.
POST data from API Management directly to a storage account queue
When you want to accept data, queue it up and process it at a later stage, you might want to use a simple way to push data to the queue without building a ba...
Being on call
True DevOps means you build it, you run it. You are responsible for the whole stack, including production. And when it comes to production, you have of cours...