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Azure, C#

Migrating to the new C# Azure KeyVault SDK Libraries

You may be familiar with the Microsoft.Azure.KeyVault SDK. This SDK is being retired in favor of 3 new SDKs: Azure.Security.KeyVault.Keys Azure.Security.KeyVault.Secrets Azure.Security.KeyVault.Certificates As you can see, the Microsoft Azure SDK team split the KeyVault functionality in 3 distinct SDKs. All those SDKs are unified with the Azure.Identity SDK to manage authentication. Let’s deep dive a little bit into those SDKs. I wanted to brush up on those, as usually what people do, when they have the KeyVault setup in their application, they tend to forget about it. If you want to migrate to the new SDKs (or you’re looking to consume the KeyVault through code), this post can be of interest to you. Azure.Identity SDK The Azure Identity library is…

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November 12, 2020 | by Dominique St-Amand | 2 Comments
Azure, DevOps

Migrating your applications to Azure using Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Packer and Virtual Machine extensions – Part 3

This is a continuation of the previous post about migrating your not ready cloud application to the Azure cloud. The last post discussed about creating a managed image to be able to be used by a virtual machine scale set for provisioning. What will we do in this series I decided to do a series of posts about this topic as it touches a variety of aspects. I will use a concrete example that may or may not have happened to you and I plan to cover Building a managed image from an Ubuntu image as base, and setting up a web server (Tomcat for instance) to host an application Creating a Virtual Machine Scale Set using ARM templates Adding…

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February 18, 2020 | by Dominique St-Amand | 1 Comment
Azure

Migrating your applications to Azure using Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Packer and Virtual Machine extensions – Part 2

This is a continuation of the previous post about migrating your not ready cloud application to the Azure cloud. The last post discussed about creating a managed image to be able to be used by a virtual machine scale set for provisioning. What will we do in this series I decided to do a series of posts about this topic as it touches a variety of aspects. I will use a concrete example that may or may not have happened to you and I plan to cover Building a managed image from an Ubuntu image as base, and setting up a web server to host an application Creating a Virtual Machine Scale Set using ARM templates (this post) Adding a…

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February 17, 2020 | by Dominique St-Amand | Leave a comment
Azure

Migrating your applications to Azure using Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Packer and Virtual Machine extensions – Part 1

So you are ready to move your application to Azure but it is not fully optimized for the cloud. You looked into App Services (web apps), but to be able to really get the best of them, it would need some definitive improvements in the code. You go back to your team and management and propose them a lift and shift that would make everyone happy. You then plan your improvements in your timeline and estimates. How can you effectively lift and shift your application so that it can be highly available (within one region) and scalable? In this series of posts, I will show you how you can package your application in an image and have it ready for…

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February 16, 2020 | by Dominique St-Amand | 3 Comments
Azure

End to End SSL solution using Web Apps and Azure Application Gateway multisite hosting

High performance and security (amongst other things) are the 2 non-functional requirements that usually first come to mind when we design an infrastructure architecture for the applications we develop. The usual 2 concepts that pop up with these 2 requirements are load balancing and firewalls. How can you easily achieve and check these 2 concepts when you are developing your architecture in Azure? One component that you can use for this is the Azure Application Gateway. Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer (OSI layer 7 load balancer) that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Some of its features include (but not limited to): URL-based routing: make routing decisions based on additional attributes of an…

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July 22, 2019 | by Dominique St-Amand | 2 Comments
Azure

Remove a directory from your Azure account

My account had a directory in Azure that I was not a member of anymore and that I wanted to remove.  You may be in a similar situation in that you have a directory in your Azure account that you don’t need anymore and you want to remove it from your account. It is now possible to self-leave a directory as show in this post. Here is the accepted answer: 1. Log into the Access Panel at https://myapps.microsoft.com In the upper-right corner, select your name. 2. Next to Organizations, select the settings icon (gear). Note: If you can’t see the settings icon (gear), widen the browser screen. The Access Panel user interface is a reactive interface that adepts to the…

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February 3, 2019 | by Dominique St-Amand | 1 Comment
Azure, C#, Visual Studio

The moment I came to play with .NET Standard 2.0 – Azure Functions

A lot has changed ever since I played with Azure Functions and .NET Standard 2.0. If you remember from my previous post, I was talking about how you had to set the FUNCTIONS_EXTENSION_VERSION to beta in order to benefit from the new runtime. I also talked about how I had a problem with the connection manager to access the app settings. Well the good news is that the team now fully migrated to the new Configuration modeling from ASP.NET core. You can now easily refer to your configurations by importing the following packages and using the following code to have access to your configuration: Nuget package Description Microsoft.Extensions.Logging Main logging package Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions Makes SetBasePath() available Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Json Makes AddJsonFile() method available…

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July 15, 2018 | by Dominique St-Amand | 3 Comments