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.…
OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect (Part 4) - Device Authorization Flow
This article gives an overview of the steps involved in the device authorization flow, which can be used by input constraint devices (clients) like smart TVs.…
OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect - Terminology
This article covers the terminology required to understand the OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect flows…
OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect (Part 3) - Client Credentials Flow
This article gives an overview of the steps involved in the client credentials flow which is commonly used for server-to-server interactions.…
OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect (Part 2) - Authorization Code Flow + PKCE
This post talks about the authorization code flow - probably the most common OAuth 2.0 flow type. And also about the PKCE extension, which can be seen as the successor of the implicit grant flow.…
How to move an Azure VM to another virtual network
So there you are. You created a new VM late at night and didn't pay close attention when hitting enter on that New-AzVM command. Unfortunately it got placed in the wrong virtual network/subnet. "Okay, let's just create another NIC" - you think. But things are not that easy.…
OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect (Part 1) - An introduction
OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect does have a reputation of being complex. In this series of posts I am documenting my own endevaours to understand this protocol in more depth…