In this post, we’ll take a brief look at the difference between an Azure service principal and a managed identity (formerly referred to as a Managed Service Identity or MSI). Dive deeper into Azure AD service principals and managed identities in our new detailed ebook about Azure AD What is a service principal or managed service identity? Lets get the basics out of the way first. In short, a service principal can be defined as:...
In the post, we’ll take a look at one option for accessing Azure Key Vault secrets from within an Azure DevOps release pipeline. Want to secure your Azure DevOps application secrets in Key Vault? Find out how in our short e-book guide on Amazon Setting up your Azure Key Vault Before you can add the secret to your pipeline, you first need to make sure that there’s a key vault setup in Azure, and that you have given either your pipeline managed service identity or account GET access to the secrets within the vault....
Today we’re going to look at how easy it is to add Azure Application Insights (part of Azure Monitor) to an Azure Function. What is Application Insights? In short, Application Insights is a performance and monitoring tool that forms part of the Azure Monitor suite. It allows you to access detailed telemetry on requests made to your function, while observing real-time performance and failures. It works across App Service apps, Azure Functions and more - practically anywhere you can install the available App Insights SDKs....
In this post, we’ll take a look at how you can quickly create an Azure Function when using a Mac. In particular, we’ll be using the Azure Functions command line tools to create our functions app. Getting started Before you can create a function, you’ll need to install the Azure Function command line tools. But before you can continue, you need to make sure that you have installed Brew. If you’re not familiar with it, Brew is a package manager for the Mac - similar to NPM for Node....
Starting out with an Azure Service Bus? It can be confusing trying to work out whether you should use a queue or a topic. In this post, we’ll try to break down the difference between the two and which one you should use when. What is a service bus queue or topic? When configuring a service bus, you have two options for configuring how messages are processed - a queue, or a topic....
Often when creating an Azure DevOps continuous integration/deployment pipeline there’s a need to store and use app secrets, such as client keys. While you can store secrets within Azure DevOps variable groups, an alternative approach is to use Azure Key Vault instead. Want to secure your Azure DevOps application secrets in Key Vault? Find out how in our short e-book guide on Amazon By using Azure Key Vault you get the same enhanced data protection that your other cloud apps can enjoy including activation and expiration dates, and the DevOps integration allows for the centralised management of keys used across apps or pipelines....