How to authenticate an Azure identity against a Postgres instance with EFCore
This article demonstrates how to authenticate against an AAD-integrated Postgres instance with a (managed) Azure identity and Entity Framework Core.…
Automate JWT token retrieval with Postman
This post demonstrates how a Postman pre-request script can be leveraged to automate access token retrieval before calling an API.…
How to manage PostgreSQL database permissions using Azure AD groups
This article shows how we can control read-only and read-write access to a PostgreSQL database by using Azure AD groups.…
How to log request & response body to Application Insights
Application Insights does not provide a turn-key ready solution that logs request and response bodies. This article shows how to leverage a custom ASP.NET Core middleware to get that data into Azure Monitor.…
OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect (Part 5) - OIDC Introduction
This post gives an introduction to OpenID Connect and the concept of identity federation.…
How to use static IP addresses with Azure App Service
This post shows how to use a static inbound or outbound IP together with Azure App Service.…
How to use Key Vault secrets in application settings
This article shows how an App Service can be configured to consume secrets stored in a Key Vault…
How to get the creation timestamp of an Azure resource
In this article I describe how to make use of the Azure REST API to retrieve the creation timestamp of any Azure resource. Unfortunately this info is not available via Portal or CLI.…