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Azure API Management | Product Required Subscription Behaviours

Background | Functional Workings of APIM Subscriptions Subscriptions are a nice and easy method of securing your APIs in APIM, however as I bumped into a small detail around their use the other day, I thought it wise to note it down. Azure API Management Subscriptions operate at three scope levels: …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Azure API Management | Subscription Contract Names

Problem Space Subscriptions are a nice and easy method of securing your APIs in APIM, however as I bumped into a small detail around their use the other day, I thought it wise to note it down. When a Subscription Key is required on an API, as an invoker I will need to provide either a Header or a …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Bicep File Template | VS Code Snippet

Problem Space: After developing native ARM templates for a year or two within a set structure, I have found myself applying the same structure to my Bicep templates using comments. This structure however is not setup by default, and in actuality, the sequencing of your bicep components doesn’t …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Azure API Management | API Mocking

Problem Space: I have been recently looking into setting up some APIs within API Management. I do not currently have any backing services to hook the API’s to and I would like to decouple development of the front end systems from the backend. Thankfully Azure API Management has provided the …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Sunday, September 18, 2022

Azure API Management | Purge Soft-Deleted Instance

Problem Space: Around June 2020 a change was made to Azure API Management whereby any deletion of the instance via the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, and REST API version 2020-06-01-preview or later will result in the instance being soft-deleted. This is to allow for recoverability of a …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Bicep Tips and Tricks (8 posts)