Ever wanted to do something after a user logs in or logs out of your Blazor App? Surprisingly, it fairly simple to do. In VS Code I created a Blazor WebAssembly project that uses Azure ADB2C for authentication. Once scaffolded, I navigated to the Authenticate.razor page in the Pages folder. The RemoteAuthenticatorView component supports two…
Trying use Key Vault and Managed Identities in your Logic App? Then check out this excellent article by Eldert Grootenboer at https://blog.eldert.net/retrieve-azure-key-vault-secrets-from-logic-apps-using-managed-identity/.
I have a policy on all my operations in Azure API Management to validate a JWT Token and extract the sub Claim, which I store in a userId variable that can be used in other policies. I have an operation called Organization Add that calls an Azure Function to add an organization to the database….
I use Postman for testing my API calls to Azure API Management. In each of my requests I need to pass a Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key header. In this header I provide my subscription key for my API provided by Azure API Management. Normally I would do this for each request. What if I need to change the…
With Blazor Web Assembly officially released I decided to take one of my side projects and write the front end in Blazor. I was able to wire up Azure AD B2C for authentication. What I wanted to do next was to take a look at the Claims that were available, I knew how to do…
With all that is going on with COVID-19 and the impact that it is having on retailers, I took a couple of days and wrote a curb-side app that would allow customers to notify a retailer, or any vendor for that matter, that they had arrived to pick-up their order. Please note, this is an…
I am a big fan of deploying Azure resources using an imperative approach. In this example I wanted to create an App Service that used Azure Active Directory, without having to add any code, e.g. Startup.cs. I will use both Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI. This raises a good question, why mix Azure PowerShell and…
I am building a pipeline for deploying my application, the first thing I needed to do was deploy my Azure resources. I have a tendency to be more imperative with my deployment strategy, using Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI over Azure Resource Management (ARM) templates. I use Visual Studio Code to code my azure-pipelines.yml file,…
When it comes to deploying my infrastructure to Azure I prefer an imperative approach over a declarative approach so I starting to work a lot with Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell. That being said, I am working on an Web App which will be deployed to an App Service in Azure. When I deploy the…
In previous article we looked at how to secure an Azure Function with Azure API Management, in an effort to only allow resources within the Azure tenant access. Could the same thing be done with a Web Api hosted in App Services? Surprisingly, it was just as easy to implement. You setup Express Auth through…
