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I have been recently working on building a new Yaml pipeline in Azure DevOps and wished to use the GitVersion Task, however, upon running the pipeline the task failed with the following error:

ERROR [../../.. ..:..:..:..] An unexpected error occurred:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not …

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I recently started working on a Git Repository (not of my own creation) that had a repository name containing spaces.

As a helping hand when a repository is created with spaces in the name, the spaces are replaced with %20 when cloned … Unless otherwise specified, however, this would then need to …

Problem Space

When it comes to creating Azure Storage Accounts, the name has some very important rules that need to be kept in mind. These rules will not only be important in the creation of the resource, but will be critical in deletion and reuse.

The rules are as follows:

1. Storage account names must be between 3 and …

Background | Functional Workings of APIM Subscriptions

Subscriptions are a nice and easy method of securing your APIs in APIM, however as I bumped into a small detail around their use the other day, I thought it wise to note it down.

Azure API Management Subscriptions operate at three scope levels:

1. All APIs
   • Applies …

Problem Space

Subscriptions are a nice and easy method of securing your APIs in APIM, however as I bumped into a small detail around their use the other day, I thought it wise to note it down.

When a Subscription Key is required on an API, as an invoker I will need to provide either a Header or a Parameter to my …

Problem Space:

After developing native ARM templates for a year or two within a set structure, I have found myself applying the same structure to my Bicep templates using comments. This structure however is not setup by default, and in actuality, the sequencing of your bicep components doesn’t really matter as …

Problem Space:

I have been recently looking into setting up some APIs within API Management. I do not currently have any backing services to hook the API’s to and I would like to decouple development of the front end systems from the backend. Thankfully Azure API Management has provided the ability to create …

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Around June 2020 a change was made to Azure API Management whereby any deletion of the instance via the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, and REST API version 2020-06-01-preview or later will result in the instance being soft-deleted.

This is to allow for recoverability of a recently deleted API …

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I have recently encountered an interesting problem space with Azure logic app action run after logic. I ran into the problem whilst creating a logic app that will perform actions in parallel. The bulk of the actions are performed in scopes. If an action fails within the first set of scopes, the scope …

Problem Space:

I recently came into some issues with assigning Azure roles through a Bicep template and pipeline deployment. I was looking to assign ‘Storage Blob Data Reader’ to a service principal, and refine their access to only the container of the storage account. The three main issues that I ran into …