Instead of storing user credentials of an external system in a configuration file, you should store them in the Azure Key Vault. Before MSI (Managed Service Identity) you would have to store the credentials to use the key vault in the configuration file so this wasn’t really helpful. With MSI (Managed Service Identity) you do…
Most of the times companies have rules in place for managing their Azure environment. The main rules that should be in place are “Azure Policies” and naming conventions. Naming convention should be used to easily identify Azure resources and making consistency within the Azure Portal. These naming convention could then also be written up into…
To connect an Azure App Service to a on-premise database you can make use of different solutions. Two of those solutions are: Hybrid Connection VPN On my blog I wrote a couple of articles on Hybrid Connections and this time I was working with the VPN connection. For a project we were setting up the…
A utility task is available for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to invoke an http triggered Azure function. The ability to invoke a Function from your CI/CD pipeline offers a lot of new possibilities within those pipelines. Arguments The Arguments that you can configure on the utility task: Argument Description Azure function URL The URL…
Today I published an extension for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) that gives you the ability to add and remove role based access assignments in Azure. VSTS Extension The screenshot below shows the extension. The extension can do two actions: Remove an Azure Role Assignment on a Resource Group. Add an Azure Role…
You can think of many situations where you would like to create a self hosted machine for Visual Studio team services (VSTS). Installing and configuring a self hosted machine requires only a few steps. Before you begin make sure the system meets the pre-requisites: Windows 10 and Beyond (64-bit): No known system prerequisites at this time.…
In some situations you will look into a current Azure Environment and the setup/governance of it and need to migrate or move resources around. The below script will help you with exporting the Azure resources into a CSV file, from that CSV file you can join the data within Excel to make plans. Script …
As of yesterday (16-8-2017) the public preview of Azure Event Grid is live. Azure Event Grid is a fully managed event routing service. Azure Event Grid greatly simplifies the development of event-based applications and simplifies serverless workflow creation. Using a single service, Azure Event Grid manages all routing of events from any source, to any…
As you know the classic hybrid connections that are build upon Azure BizTalk Services are deprecated. These connection will have to be replaced by the new hybrid connections based upon Azure Relay Services Configure access to a private network for an Azure App Services Replacing the connections will need to take place before 31 may…
As you may know almost everything that is deployed to Azure is publicly available. As with Azure SQL Database you do not have a firewall available for Azure Web Applications. That means other options need to be used to restrict access to Azure Web Application. Restrict access by IP A possible option is to restrict…
On-Premise connections for Azure App Services can be created by using Hybrid Connections. Hybrid connections do not need any development or re-configuration of your application. It only needs a small client service in the private network (downloadable from the Azure Portal) and the hybrid connection configured in the Azure Portal. Hybrid Connection Hybrid Connections give…
Working with Azure Services in different subscriptions means that the Azure Services need to run in different subscriptions. This often occurs when we talk about DTAP environments (Development, Test, Acceptance and Production). Making sure the resources run on different subscriptions can be done by hand but that is very time-consuming task, this is where the…