It has been quite a while since I’ve sat behind my computer.
The reason for it? Well, I’ve had a bad case of a bacteria infection. This infection started sometime early in January.
A couple of days later, I was in the hospital, where the doctors diagnosed me with the infection. It was so severe; they had to perform surgery on my left arm immediately to cleanse it. Of course, I also needed lots and lots of antibiotics to get rid of the bacteria.
Read more →It’s the time of the year when you see lots of bloggers & content creators making a post, video, or something else to reflect on the past year and make predictions for the next.
Well, this year, I’m one of them!
We all know a lot of stuff has happened in the past year. I’m trying to keep a positive mind and not focus too much on life’s negative things. Focussing on the good things in life makes me much happier and energetic.
Read more →I’m busy locking down my web applications in Azure and using my learnings on the day job. One way to do this is by making sure all requests are authenticated, and roles are granted accordingly.
Using the correct issuer While checking out the token, I found the issuer (iss) contains the following value https://sts.windows.net/[tenantid]/.
{ "aud": "f4c42c68-c881-4320-815c-1ca4f32cb6c5", "iss": "https://sts.windows.net/[tenantid]/", "iat": 1605812881, // all other properties of your token } The issuer is valid, but not the one I was expecting.
Read more →You might know it’s possible to add Azure Active Directory users and groups to Azure SQL Databases by running a command like this one:
CREATE USER [My-DB-Administrators] FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDER WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA = dbo; GO alter role db_owner ADD member [My-DB-Administrators] GO If you ever wanted to automate this via a script in a deployment pipeline or some Azure worker process, you probably noticed this didn’t work as expected.
Well, this has changed!
Read more →Some time ago, someone assigned me a task to retrieve data from several data sources residing in multiple Azure subscriptions, using a Logic App.
Creating these shouldn’t be very difficult when using API Connections and using the data repositories’ connection strings. However, I don’t like specifying these connection strings anywhere in my ARM template nor Key Vault.
What I DO want to use is the listKeys function in my deployment template.
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