In a previous article I talked about how to Secure an Azure Function App with Azure Active Directory, now I would like to look at how to call a Secure Azure Function App from an Azure Logic App. Let’s first create a Logic App. In the Azure Portal, click Create Resource, type Logic App in…
While authorization keys make it easy to work with Azure Functions, they are not recommend as the way to secure an Azure Function in production. There are three recommend ways to secure an Azure Function in production: Turn on App Service Authentication/Authorization Use Azure API Management (APIM) to authenticate requests. Deploy your function app to…
In this article we will look at how to create a single Azure DevOps Build Pipeline that triggers on multiple branches. I am using the repository at https://dev.azure.com/maruma/SampleApp as the working example. If you would like to follow along you will want to clone this repository into your own Azure DevOps subscription. This example depends…
In this article I will demonstrate how to create multiple builds and releases for a single Visual Studio solution that contains multiple projects. I want to create a separate build and release pipeline for each project. The repository that I use for this article can be found at https://dev.azure.com/maruma/SampleApp , it is composed of a…
In my efforts to break out of my relational database paradigm and into a NoSQL paradigm I have been working through some real world examples of database models that I have used in the past and trying different ways to convert them into a NoSQL database. This is an example of three four different ways…
This is the last article of three part series that started with Auth0 to Azure AD B2C Migration – Part 1 and Auth0 to Azure AD B2C Migration Part 2. The repository for this article is located at https://github.com/mattruma/Auth0AzureADB2CMigrationDemo, where for the sake of this article, we will be working with the AzureADB2CWebApp project. Now…
We have already looked at an ASP.NET Core 2.2 application that leveraged Auth0 for authentication, we will now direct our attention to developing a similar application that leverages Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C) for authentication. First we will need to create our Azure AD B2C tenant in the Azure portal. Login to the…
In this series of articles we will look at converting an existing ASP.NET Core 2 Web Application from using Auth0 to using Azure AD B2C. This series of articles assumes you have some familiarity with Auth0 and Azure AD B2C, but just in case you don’t, below are several links that should get you caught…
Most of what I discuss here is culled from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/choose-a-messaging-model-in-azure-to-connect-your-services/2-choose-whether-to-use-message-queues-or-events. If you are building a distributed application you will want to ensure the application is both reliable and scalable. You will often leverage communication components to accomplish these objectives. This will necessitate a choice between messages, events or some combination of both? So how do you…
I created an example of a NET Core Web Api that makes use of both the Cosmos DB SDK 2.0 and 3.0. The example is based on an Order entity with multiple Order Item entities. It includes controller methods for working with Orders in both v1 and v2 of the API. Note, in v2 of the…
