When developing APIs for consumption from many callers you can’t just throw in new major or minor updates without impacting how they are calling the API. Doing this can cause major issues so you would normally develop APIs in things like Azure Web Applications with versioning. The callers of the APIs can then reference theseContinueContinue reading “Managing Azure API Versions Dynamically Using Terraform”
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Validating Azure APIM in CI: A Practical Approach to Safe API Deployments
When deploying any code you want to validate it as much as you can before deploying. However with APIs in the APIM you can’t validate the XML Policy or the API logic until it is deployed into the API Management Service (APIM). This means you are limited to the options to validate the code, beforeContinueContinue reading “Validating Azure APIM in CI: A Practical Approach to Safe API Deployments”
Manage Complex Terraform Lists and Maps in a CSV Format
When developing some resource in Terraform you develop a large complex map or list of entries. This can become hard to manage, difficult to read and worst to maintain. An easier method is to convert these items into a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file. This will condense something that could be 100’s of lines down toContinueContinue reading “Manage Complex Terraform Lists and Maps in a CSV Format”
Authenticating with Azure Databricks Service Principal
While working with Azure Databricks, I have discovered a few different ways to authenticate with the Service Principal. Some of these are documented and some I have found through a lot of searching, but none I have found a quick easy guide on how to action them all. Setup Step one is of course makeContinueContinue reading “Authenticating with Azure Databricks Service Principal”
Automating Azure PIM Requests with PowerShell
Privileged Identity Management (PIM) is made to be a secure authentication method to assign user permissions via groups and monitor the access. This enables short time requests for the permissions that can require fields like reason for access, how long to have access and who is having access. This can typically be used for engineers’ContinueContinue reading “Automating Azure PIM Requests with PowerShell”
Best Practices for Terraform Module Testing and Validation
Terraform Modules are great for isolated components you can reuse and plug-in to your main Infrastructure as Core code base. They can then also be shared and used by multiple other teams at the same time to reduce repeated code, complexity and increase compliance. However, as they are isolated, they are harder to test, maintainContinueContinue reading “Best Practices for Terraform Module Testing and Validation”
Azure DevOps REST API: Add Users and Set Administrators Easily
When using the Azure DevOps REST API to create Teams and add users, you may want to set the administrators as well at the same time. However, this REST API is not well documented on the Microsoft documentation site for the REST API. With some searching and mapping of resources, I have below the methodContinueContinue reading “Azure DevOps REST API: Add Users and Set Administrators Easily”
Download files and folders from Azure DevOps
If you have a large repository it can be a long wait on the pipeline to get it checked out, only to use a few files. In this post, I will guide you through using PowerShell to download only the files you need with either the Azure DevOps REST API or CLI. API Service InContinueContinue reading “Download files and folders from Azure DevOps “
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