Both from a security and data quality perspective, it is advised to validate request and response payloads in Azure API Management. This blog shows how to do this. Validate-content policy The validate-content policy validates the size or content of a request or...
When setting up CI/CD pipelines, it's good to have an explicit build stage. This stage is typically used to compile your code and run unit tests. When we are dealing with Infrastructure as Code, such as Bicep or ARM templates, there is no need to compile your files...
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...
For many architecture designs, I need to make the choice between Azure Service Bus and Event Grid. Azure Service Bus is more targeted to transactional messaging, Event Grid is optimized for handling discrete events. Both services are publish/subscribe engines. ...
People who follow my blog know that I am a big fan of securing Azure resources through Azure AD. Leveraging your (hopefully) well-managed organization credentials to access Azure resources, is way better than using and sharing access keys all over. You can also use...
Yesterday, the new Logic Apps runtime - called Logic Apps Standard - was GA'ed. This is a real game-changer in the Microsoft integration space. During the private and public preview, I intensively played around with the new runtime. In this blog post, I want to...
Lately, I banged my head on an access rights issue. I was automating an Azure governance through Azure CLI, which included the management group and subscription hierarchy. My Azure DevOps service principal was owner of the root management group, because it had to...