Moim Hossain

Empower Kubernetes developers with guardrails

Background A while ago, I wrote a post: Azure DevOps Multi-Stage pipelines for Enterprise AKS scenarios. The idea was having a platform team that enforces best practices, security and other compliance aspects to Kubernetes platform and allows one ore more workload-teams (i.e., product teams) build and deploy their workload into the cluster. The previous post suggested … Continue reading Empower Kubernetes developers with guardrails

Moim Hossain

Multi-Tenant Daemons with Microsoft Identity platform

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

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Elastic self-hosted pool for Azure DevOps (on Kubernetes)

UpdateThere is a follow up post with some updates, you can read here. Introduction If you are using Azure Pipelines, then you surely have used Microsoft-hosted agent. With Microsoft-hosted agents, maintenance and upgrades are taken care of for you. However, there are times when self-hosted agents are needed (i.e. customized images, network connectivity requirements etc.). … Continue reading Elastic self-hosted pool for Azure DevOps (on Kubernetes)

Moim Hossain

Azure App Service with Front-door – how to fix outbound URLs?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/quickstart-create-front-doorThis article shows how to rewrite IIS URLs (outbound) with URL rewrite module to configure legacy asp.net web apps hosted on Azure App Service but safeguarded with a WAF (Front-door/Application Gateway). Setting up Azure Front-door or Azure Application Gateway are fairly straight forward process and well documented in Microsoft Azure Docs. That is beyond the … Continue reading Azure App Service with Front-door – how to fix outbound URLs?

Moim Hossain

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

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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

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Azure Resource Governance with Template Specs & Biceps

All the example codes are available in GitHub. Background Governance of cloud estates is challenging for businesses. It’s crucial to enforce security policies, workload redundancies, uniformity (such as naming conventions), simplify deployments with packaged artifacts (i.e., ARM templates), Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) across the enterprise. Generally, the idea is, a centralized team (sometimes … Continue reading Azure Resource Governance with Template Specs & Biceps

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Azure DevOps Security & Permissions REST API

Every Few months I notice the following Saga repeats. I face a challenge where I need to programmatically manage security aspects of Azure DevOps resources (like Repository, Pipeline, Environment etc.). I do lookup the Azure DevOps REST API documentation, realize that the Permissions & Security API's are notoriously complicated and inadequately documented. So, I begin … Continue reading Azure DevOps Security & Permissions REST API