Category ASP.NET Core
Azure Durable Functions Monitoring and Diagnostics
This post looks at monitoring Azure Durable Functions, highlighting practical techniques and tools that can help ensure reliability and performance. It also demonstrates how diagnostic APIs can be integrated to provide deeper insights into function execution, state management, and error handling, enabling developers to build more resilient and observable workflows. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AzureDurableFunctions History Posts in […]
Waiting for Azure Durable Functions to complete
The article show how an Azure Durable Function can be used to process a HTTP API request which waits for the completion result. This can be required when you have no control over the client application calling the API and the process requires asynchronous operations like further API calls and so on. The Azure Durable […]
Using Key Vault and Managed Identities with Azure Functions
This article shows how Azure Key Vault could be used together with Azure Functions. The Azure Functions can use the system assigned identity to access the Key Vault. This needs to be configured in the Key Vault access policies using the service principal. By using the Microsoft.Azure.KeyVault and the Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.AzureKeyVault nuget packages, defining direct references […]
Azure Functions Configuration and Secrets Management
This post shows how to configure Azure Function projects so that no secrets are required in the local.settings.json or in the code. Secrets for the project are saved in the user secrets of the project, or in the app settings of the deployment. The deployment should/can use Azure Key Vault for the secrets and not […]
Using External Inputs in Azure Durable functions
This post shows how to implement an Azure Durable function flow with an external HTTP API input. The flow is started using a HTTP request, runs an activity, waits for the external input from a HTTP API which could be any Azure function input and then runs a second activity. The application is implemented using […]
Restricting access to an Azure AD protected API using Azure AD Groups
This post shows how to restrict access to an ASP.NET Core API to only allow users from a defined Azure AD group to use a protected API. The API uses an Azure App registration for authorization. The user signs in with an ASP.NET Core Razor page application or an Angular App and can access the […]
Angular SPA with an ASP.NET Core API using Azure AD Auth and user access tokens
This post shows how to authenticate an Angular SPA application using Azure AD and consume secure data from an ASP.NET Core API which is protected by Azure AD. Azure AD App registrations are used to configure and setup the authentication and authorization. The Angular application uses the OpenID Connect Code flow with PKCE and the […]
Create, Build, Deploy and Configure an Azure App Service with Azure DevOps and Azure CLI
This post shows how to create, build, deploy and configure an Azure App Service using Azure DevOps, Azure CLI and Powershell. An Azure Service is created in Azure using Azure DevOps with Azure CLI and Powershell. The Azure App Service is created and built using ASP.NET Core and Visual Studio. This solution is deployed to […]
Create, Build, Deploy and Configure an Azure Function with Azure DevOps and Azure CLI
This post shows how to create, build, deploy and configure an Azure Function using Azure DevOps, Azure CLI and Powershell. An Azure Function is created in Azure using Azure DevOps with Azure CLI and Powershell. The Azure Function (V3) project is created and built using Visual Studio and C#. This project is deployed to the […]
Publish Nuget packages in Azure DevOps Pipelines
In Azure DevOps, Pipelines can be used to build your solution, create a Nuget package and publish the Nuget package to the Nuget feed for further usage. This post shows how you can implement this and use the new Nuget package in Visual Studio. Setup Azure DevOps project and git Repository Open the required Azure […]
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