Azure on Max's Tech Chronicleshttps://maxdon.tech/tags/azure/Recent content in Azure on Max's Tech ChroniclesHugo -- gohugo.ioen© 2024 Massimiliano DoniniWed, 24 Jul 2024 14:26:00 +0200Github Actions Azure Vnet Integrationhttps://maxdon.tech/posts/github-actions-azure-vnet-integration/Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:26:00 +0200https://maxdon.tech/posts/github-actions-azure-vnet-integration/In today’s post, we will look at an interesting challenge, having GitHub actions interact with Azure PaaS services for which we have disabled public access.Microsoft Graph Permissions Well-Known Idshttps://maxdon.tech/posts/ms-graph-permissions-ids/Thu, 09 Feb 2023 17:51:31 +0100https://maxdon.tech/posts/ms-graph-permissions-ids/If you’re working with the Microsoft identity platform, you’re probably familiar with the concept of application Scopes or Roles.Ace the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification Exam: Tips and Strategieshttps://maxdon.tech/posts/ace-the-az-104/Sun, 29 Jan 2023 12:51:07 +0100https://maxdon.tech/posts/ace-the-az-104/I recently passed the AZ-104 certification exam, making it the third Microsoft certification under my belt so far.Goodbye secrets 👋, Hello token exchange: Connect Your GitHub Actions to Azure securelyhttps://maxdon.tech/posts/github-azure-oidc/Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:39:35 +0100https://maxdon.tech/posts/github-azure-oidc/OpenID Connect (OIDC) integration between Azure Active Directory and GitHub allows your GitHub Actions workflows to securely access resources in Azure, without needing to store the Azure credentials in the GitHub action secrets.Terraform Tips & Tricks: Managing Large-Scale Azure Resource Importshttps://maxdon.tech/posts/import-many-terraform/Sun, 08 Jan 2023 14:44:21 +0000https://maxdon.tech/posts/import-many-terraform/This post describes my journey to import several hundred Azure resources in Terraform.Azure WebJobs, Service Bus and Managed Identity: Lesson learnedhttps://maxdon.tech/posts/servicebus-manageed-identity-rbac/Tue, 09 Aug 2022 13:07:51 +0000https://maxdon.tech/posts/servicebus-manageed-identity-rbac/Today I was converting some Azure webjobs to connect to Azure Service Bus using managed service identity (MSI).Dynamically scale down AppService outside business hours to save 💰💰https://maxdon.tech/posts/dynamically-scale-app-service-plans/Mon, 25 Jul 2022 12:59:43 +0000https://maxdon.tech/posts/dynamically-scale-app-service-plans/The other day I was on a quest to lower a bit our Azure spending.Zero downtime deployment with Azure Container Apps and Github Actions - Part 1https://maxdon.tech/posts/aca-zero-downtime-1/Fri, 24 Jun 2022 10:12:18 +0000https://maxdon.tech/posts/aca-zero-downtime-1/Introduction # As you may know, Azure Container Apps went out of preview during Microsoft Build in late May this year.Create Azure Container Apps with terraformhttps://maxdon.tech/posts/aca-terraform/Thu, 26 May 2022 10:04:06 +0000https://maxdon.tech/posts/aca-terraform/Microsoft announced at Microsoft Build that Azure Container Apps are now generally available (GA).Using Managed Identity with Azure WebJobs and Service Bushttps://maxdon.tech/posts/servicebus-managed-identity/Tue, 24 May 2022 10:01:30 +0000https://maxdon.tech/posts/servicebus-managed-identity/Managed Service Identity (or MSI for short) allows Azure resources to connect to Azure services that supports AD authentication (see the full list here) without using secrets.Implement Azure AD Workload Identity on AKS with terraformhttps://maxdon.tech/posts/azwi-k8s/Thu, 24 Feb 2022 09:55:39 +0000https://maxdon.tech/posts/azwi-k8s/Azure makes it very easy to create managed identities for a variety of services (e.Configure secret-less connection from App Services to Azure Sql via terraformhttps://maxdon.tech/posts/azure-sql-secret-less-conn/Wed, 16 Feb 2022 18:17:46 +0000https://maxdon.tech/posts/azure-sql-secret-less-conn/It’s been a while since we can connect App services to Azure Sql in a secret-less fashion, using managed service identity (MSI for brevity from now onwards).Poor mans App services deployment slot auto-swap for Linux with GitHub Actionshttps://maxdon.tech/posts/poor-man-linux-swap/Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:14:44 +0000https://maxdon.tech/posts/poor-man-linux-swap/Nowadays App Service deployment has became quite straight forward.