Background I have recently speaking to a customer about the following scenario. Customer has an API that supposed to be consumed by some **trusted** daemon applications built and managed by their partners. It's not the interactive users (no signed in users via an web application) who will be using the API, rather some background process … Continue reading Multi-Tenant Daemons with Microsoft Identity platform
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Secure your pipelines by frequently rotating secrets
TL; DR: This article and accompanying source codes helps you setting up an automated secret or certificate rotations for Azure service principals and Azure DevOps service connections. Jump into the technical part here. Background If you are deploying applications on Azure from Azure DevOps service connections (or GitHub actions) you are most likely using a … Continue reading Secure your pipelines by frequently rotating secrets
Bridge to Kubernetes – be confident on shipping software
Bridge to Kubernetes is a successor of Azure Dev Space. Distributed software’s are comprised of more than one services (often referred as micro-services), they depend on each other (one service invoking APIs of another service) to deliver capabilities to end users. While separations of services bring flexibility in delivering features (or bug fixes) faster, it … Continue reading Bridge to Kubernetes – be confident on shipping software
How to use ADFS/SAML2.0 as Identity provider with Azure AD B2C
Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C) provides support for the SAML 2.0 identity provider. With this capability, you can create a technical profile in Azure AD B2C to federate with SAML-based identity provider, such as ADFS. Thus, allow users to sign in with their existing enterprise identities. Microsoft has good docs on this topic, … Continue reading How to use ADFS/SAML2.0 as Identity provider with Azure AD B2C
Access Control management via REST API – Azure Data Lake Gen 2
Background A while ago, I have built an web-based self-service portal that facilitated multiple teams in the organisation, setting up their Access Control (ACLs) for corresponding data lake folders. The portal application was targeting Azure Data Lake Gen 1. Recently I wanted to achieve the same but on Azure Data Lake Gen 2. At the … Continue reading Access Control management via REST API – Azure Data Lake Gen 2
Inter-process communication on Windows Containers
Background Legacy monolith applications that are built to run on single beefy server can take advantage of containers to simplify the deployment model and also potentially opens possibility to re-architect piece by piece without triggering a complete rewrite. I ran into a scenario where I am considering wrap up a large monolith (with many threads … Continue reading Inter-process communication on Windows Containers
CloudOven – Terraform at ease!
TL;DR: URL: CloudOven Use Google account or sign-up Google Chrome please! (I've not tested on other browsers yet) Background In recent years I have spent fair amount of time in design and implementation of Infrastructure as code in larger enterprise context. Terraform seemed to be a tool of choice when it comes to preserve the … Continue reading CloudOven – Terraform at ease!
Continuously deploy Blazor SPA to Azure Storage static web site
Lately I am learning ASP.net Blazor – the relatively new UI framework from Microsoft. Blazor is just awesome – the ability to write c# code both in server and client side is extremely productive for .net developers. From Blazor documentations: Blazor lets you build interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript. Blazor apps are composed … Continue reading Continuously deploy Blazor SPA to Azure Storage static web site
Resilient Azure Data Lake Analytics (ADLA) Jobs with Azure Functions
Azure Data Lake Analytics is an on-demand analytics job service that allows writing queries to transform data and grab insights efficiently. The analytics service can handle jobs of any scale instantly by setting the dial for how much power you need. In many organizations, these jobs could play a crucial role and reliability of these … Continue reading Resilient Azure Data Lake Analytics (ADLA) Jobs with Azure Functions
Deploying Azure web job written in .net core
Lately I have written a .net core web job and wanted to publish it via CD (continuous deployment) from Visual Studio Online. Soon I figured, Azure Web Job SDK doesn’t support (yet) .net core. The work I expected will take 10 mins took about an hour. If you are also figuring out this, this blog … Continue reading Deploying Azure web job written in .net core