Azure DevOps is great for automating your releases to Azure. On your Azure pipeline, you have an instant overview of the deployment: what source code is being deployed and to which environments? Unfortunately, you don't have that visibility in Azure. When you...
Recently, I had to retrieve the Azure AD Object Id of a certain Azure AD Group. Because my script was already intensively leveraging Azure CLI, I used the az ad group list command. My command used the --query functionality to find the appropriate Azure AD group,...
Lately, I was involved in auto-provisioning a complete Azure governance setup. The automation was done through Azure CLI, as this offered the most flexible solution for my customer. Policy definitions were created via the az policy definition create command. While...
Once your API is running in production, you realize the necessity of having end-to-end traceability of every single API call. So, it's better to think about it upfront. This blog shows you an easy way to achieve this. Configure Application Insights Let's set up...
… Your Azure Coach is expanding! But first, let’s look back on how it all started. Looking back In June 2020, I announced my new adventure. My expectations were low, my motivation was high. The positive reactions encouraged me to build extraordinary training...
API Security with ASP.NET Core 5.0 and Azure AD for Dummies This blog is part of a complete blog series. Part 1: Authentication vs authorization Part 2: The different actors Part 3: Authentication with Azure AD Part 4: Authorization with Access Control List Part 5:...
Despite the overload of online material on this subject, I still see many people struggling to secure their ASP.NET Core APIs with Azure AD. For this, I see several causes: The difference between authentication and authorization is still not clear for many Azure AD...