If you manage many AWS accounts in an enterprise environment, you probably feel the need for better user management and federate it with IdP (in my case with Azure Active Directory). In 2017 AWS has introduced a new way how to federate access – with an AWS SSO service. In this post, I would like to describe some properties of the solution you need to count on.
Celý příspěvek AWS SSO with Azure AD – Enterprise Adoption TipsReturn HTML Response Directly from Azure Functions (.NET)
In case you want to send HTML content as HTTP response directly from Azure Functions (in .NET), you can use following code snippet to reduce your work.
Celý příspěvek Return HTML Response Directly from Azure Functions (.NET)Make Azure Front Door Origin Secured with Private Link
For hosting a static website on Azure Storage Account with custom domain, you are required to use Azure CDN/Azure Front Door service, but there are limited options to protect your origin from bypassing CDN/WAF. Microsoft recently introduced a killer feature, which enables high-level protection of any origin including Storage Account, AppService or even some service running on VMs. Celý příspěvek Make Azure Front Door Origin Secured with Private Link
Run .exe Application in Azure Functions in Powerful Way
When you need to run some executable file/console application in cloud, you don’t want to run to take care about a VM/container. A lot of workloads can be made totally serverless with Azure Functions only – with tricks described in this post.
Celý příspěvek Run .exe Application in Azure Functions in Powerful Way
Caching whole API response in ASP.NET Core
Caching data with distributed caches like Azure Redis Cache is easy – but how to easily cache whole response from your Web API (response code+body) describes this post.
Celý příspěvek Caching whole API response in ASP.NET CoreAzure Functions and forbidden sockets exception
What to do, when your Azure Function/Azure Web App application, after some time running, starts failing outgoing connections (e.g. HttpClient requests) on SocketException, but after restart your app starts to work.
Celý příspěvek Azure Functions and forbidden sockets exception
PR Crisis Microsite Deployed in Cloud in Few Hours
At Česko.Digital community, we helped to create a crisis information website for Czech Ministry of Health about the coronavirus outbreak in the Czech Republic. The website has since become one of the main information channels for all Czech citizens. This article describes how we modified the website with the Ministry’s IT dept. to handle expected load.
Celý příspěvek PR Crisis Microsite Deployed in Cloud in Few HoursOptimize Azure CosmosDB costs
Azure CosmosDB is one of the best NoSQL databases I ever worked with. But in many use cases, this database makes your budget bleeding. This post describes this service pricing & how to optimize costs (mostly for MongoDB-styled developers).
Celý příspěvek Optimize Azure CosmosDB costsSections in Azure App configuration as in appsettings.json
Do you have some Application settings in appsettings.json for App Service (or Azure Function) structured in sections? And do you know how to set up same structure as Application settings in Azure?
It’s easy – just write Application settings Key in format Section:MyAttribute
for appsettings.json:
{
"myGreatApi": {
"baseUrl": "https://localhost:7071/api/",
"version": 2,
}
}
will Application settings look like:
Running Azure Functions in Docker container – crashes on production
One day I have deployed my Azure Function app into container to production server (.NET Core on Linux). And app started to fail after few minutes, without any reason, with exit code 137. This post describes how I debugged the problem – to my suprise, it was caused by .NET Garbage Collector.
Celý příspěvek Running Azure Functions in Docker container – crashes on production