This blog shows how Azure Key Vault can be used in an Azure DevOps Pipeline build. By using Azure Key Vault to handle all your secrets or certificates, no secrets need to be saved to code, files, or other storage for the initial secrets required in a solution. Setup the Build Key Vault An Azure […]
In Azure DevOps, Pipelines can be used to create Azure infrastructure using Azure CLI and Powershell. This blog shows how to create a simple resource group in Azure using Azure DevOps Pipelines. Create the Azure DevOps Pipeline To get started, create a new Pipeline in your Azure DevOps project which references a git repository with […]
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 […]
Azure Service Bus provides many ways to setup different access levels for all types of things like the bus itself, queues, topics or subscriptions. In this post some of the ways to configure the different access levels for a queue sender will be shown. In this demo we want to allow only send access rights […]
This article shows how Azure device provisioning service can be used to setup an Azure IoT Hub and provision devices using X.509 certificates in an enrollment group. The certificates are created using the Nuget package CertificateManager. By using this package, the X.509 certificates can be created in .NET Core and created on the fly as […]
This article shows how to create certificates for an IdentityServer4 application to use for signing and token validation. The certificates are created using the CertificateManager nuget package. Both RSA and ECDsa certificates can be used for signing in IdentityServer4. Code: Certificates for IdentityServer4 signing using .NET Core Creating the Certificates in .NET Core A simple […]
This article shows how to create development certificates for a Vue.js application, so that you can develop using HTTPS. The certificates are created using the CertificateManager nuget package. Code: CreateAngularVueJsDevelopmentCertificates A simple .NET Core console application is used to create the certificates. This type of application can run on most of the standard operating systems. […]
This article shows how to create certificates in .NET Core which can be used for Azure IoT Hub. The chained certificates are created using the nuget package CertificateManager. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreCertificates To use X.509 security with Azure IoT Hub, we would like to create chained certificates. This would make it possible to separate devices or group […]
This article shows how MFA could be forced on users to access sensitive pages within an ASP.NET Core Identity application. This could be useful for applications where different levels of access exist for the different identities. For example, users might be able to view the profile data using a password login, but an administrator would […]
Send MFA signin requirement to OpenID Connect server using ASP.NET Core Identity and IdentityServer4
This post adds the custom ASP.NET Core Identity, IdentityServer4 logic to check for the “acr_values” and react if a client application requests MFA for authentication. The “acr_values” parameter is used to pass the mfa value from the client to the server in the authentication request. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreHybridFlowWithApi Blogs in this series Force ASP.NET Core OpenID […]
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