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Adventures with Azure DevOps: Connect to Azure Database for MySQL

Posted on December 17, 2020December 17, 2020 by Matt Ruma

I have been doing a lot around Azure DevOps as of late, and started dipping my toe into the CI/CD for databases, thought of calling it DataOps, but that doesn’t look like the correct term. Anyway, in my Azure DevOps pipeline I wanted to run a few tasks against an Azure Database for MySQL, e.g….

Adventures with Azure DevOps: Assembly Version Validation

Posted on December 3, 2020December 4, 2020 by Matt Ruma

I have a .NET 5 Web Api that I deploy using classic pipeline in Azure DevOps. When my Web Api is published I want to confirm that the correct version was really deployed, sometimes things happen where the deployment is successful but for some reason the older assembly might not be overwritten. In my Web…

Adventures with Bicep: Cosmos Connection Strings

Posted on November 22, 2020 by Matt Ruma

I have been playing around with Azure Bicep for deploying my infrastructure to Azure. If you are new to Bicep, please take a look at Azure/bicep: Bicep is a declarative language for describing and deploying Azure resources (github.com). My challenge? I want to write Cosmos connection strings to Azure Key Vault. I am using Bicep…

Adventures in Azure: Naming Conventions

Posted on November 20, 2020November 20, 2020 by Matt Ruma

Instance Identifier – Numerical representation of the instance, sometimes I have one instance in eastus region and another in westus region, again, I use a two digit number, e.g. 01 or 02. Sub Resource Identifier – The name of the resource that is associated to the parent resource, e.g. app insights or storage account instance,…

Adventures in Azure API Management: Pay Attention to Order in Policies

Posted on October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 by Matt Ruma

I was trying to secure an Azure API Management (APIM) APIs with OAuth 2.0 and Azure AD per Protect API backend in API Management using OAuth 2.0 and Azure AD – Azure API Management | Microsoft Docs. My APIM managed API calls a back-end .NET Core API secured with Managed Identity. In my policy, which…

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