Overview

Updated [31/01/2024]: See New Post showing methods of linking a Logic App Standard as a Backend to APIM through a Swagger Definition.

I have recently been reviewing the method in which a Logic App (Standard) workflow would be setup as an API in API Management. My aim is to overcome and simplify the …

If you haven’t already, placing a customisation on your command prompt for PowerShell is a great way to gain extra context in given activities. For example, if you would like to have a comprehensive overview of your Git status summary information, then posh-git is for you.

Be Careful: Adding customisations …

Background

Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) provides fine grained control over access to Azure resources. Azure RBAC is founded on top of the Azure Resource Manager which allows us to provide access authorisation at differing scope levels ranging from the Management Group through to individual resources. …

Problem Space

There is a potential unintentional side effect when you add a APIM subscription key as a header to an inbound request. The header is not stripped from the request prior to being sent to the configured backend service. Rather it is retained.

If you manage the backing service and are not concerned with the …

Problem Space

I have often found myself with a peeked interest into any method that will simplify both the on-boarding and return to a given project.

Why the interest you may ask…

Well, in most cases when working on a given project (Greenfield or Brownfield), one member of the team will scout ahead to make sure …

Background

Strong Names provide .NET Framework assemblies with unique identities. When the .NET Framework loads a strong-named assembly for a referring assembly, it verifies the strong name signature. If the strong name signature of the assembly cannot be verified, the .NET Framework will not load the assembly.

!Do …

Background

One of the fundamental parts to BizTalk for both configuration and integration applications is Enterprise Single Sign On, or as we will continue to reference as SSO from now on.

SSO outside the bounds of BizTalk is an available service that is used to store and transmit encrypted user credentials. However, …

Background

An Azure Tenant is hierarchically structured with the following make up:

• Tenant
• One or more Management Groups
• One or more Subscriptions
• One or more Resource groups
• One or more Resources

Deployment Scopes {Tenant, Management Group, Subscription, Resource Group} allow us to deploy respective types of …

Background

I have recently been looking at creating multiple of the same resource using Bicep. There is however a condition where I would wish for the set of resources not to be deployed. The following stages show my work through of this particular problem (using a storage account resource as an example):

Conditional …

Background

I have recently been playing around with some of the Bicep functions when I came across a pattern by Microsoft called the Shared Variable File Pattern.

This nifty pattern describes a method in which you can extract what would either be commonly used or complex configuration values away from your Bicep …