Azure Container Apps – pricing will be discussed in this article, as a part of Azure Container Apps services. You may view all of the series’ articles here. I will compare prices against the Azure App Service, but firstly let’s focus on the pricing tier in Azure Container Apps. So we have two tiers: Consumption and Dedicated, look at the table below: Feature Consumption Dedicated Free workload Yes No Network […]
Azure Container Apps – Creating using Terraform [part 1]
Azure Container Apps – Creating using Terraform, which used to be challenging. Why? Because a lot of tasks required the usage of the notoriously difficult-to-use AzApi, we recently began to be able to develop Azure Container Apps utilizing only resources from the AzureRM provider. This is wonderful news! All sources are included in this article and are available for download. Enjoy! Let’s begin with the developed architecture: Azure Container Apps […]
Azure Front Door as secure Storage blobs access
Azure Front Door as secure Storage blobs access, how to do it? When using this configuration? All answers can be found below. As you probably know, this service is a global load balancer for HTTP/HTTPS traffic. You don’t need to manage resiliency, as this service is resilient by default. See what feature you can enable, using this approach: All these features can be helpful in the following scenarios: Before going […]
Azure KeyVault – RBAC as a security best practice
Azure KeyVault – RBAC as a security best practice. For those who are new to this, I hope this essay will guide you in authorizing access to Azure KeyVault. In KeyVault, there are currently two methods for specifying access to the data plane (secrets, certificates, and keys). Please see the table below: Feature Access policy RBAC Grant access to secrets/certificates/keys yes yes Grant access to specific secret/certificate/key no yes Use […]
Azure Storage Account – Making it cost-effective
Azure Storage Account – Making it cost-effective can be hard, but using my approach will be a pice of cake. Azure Storage Account is perhaps the most popular Azure service. But have you ever considered the expense of this service? Do you have a tier for your blobs? Don’t you think it would be fantastic if I told you that you could make it cost-effective in only a few minutes? […]
Deploy Azure App Service integrated with Azure SQL and APIM
In this article, I’ll demonstrate how to deploy the .NET 7.0 Rest API with Managed Identity and integrate it with Azure SQL. As a result, you can access Azure SQL without requiring a password in your application. Cool setup, in your perception? This is the next episode of the Network Series. Just to recap, in the Network series, I demonstrate how to expose Rest APIs using Azure API Management. Private […]
Deploy Azure Function and expose it using API Management
In this article, you will learn how to deploy Azure Function and expose it using API Management. You find a sample Azure Function and deployment pipeline. The azure function is written in dotnet 7.0 and Azure Function v4. This is the next post in the Network Series, you can find all posts in this series. Just a small recap, in the Network series, I show you how to expose Rest […]
Execute entity framework migration on a Linux
Executing entity framework migration on a Linux agent can be tricky. You cannot run simple dotnet ef command, because it doesn’t work on the Linux machine. As always if you know what you are doing, you can go directly to the source, and download the pipeline here! Before running the pipeline set below variables: So, in order to execute Entity framework migration on Linux, you must create a bundled script. […]
Build a docker image in a self-hosted agent running on Azure Container Instances
How can a self-hosted agent running on Azure Container Instances create a docker image? Even while the question may seem simple, it is difficult. Suppose you’ve already set up a self-hosted agent on an Azure Container Instance (ACR); if you’re unsure how to do so, check out my blog right here! You run a pipeline with a simple docker image and … you get the below error: Unable to locate […]
