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Azure API Management | Unintentional Removal of Request Forwarding to Backend

Problem Space I have recently been working on an API scoped policy within API Management, the policy ideally should not be impacted by any policies defined higher up in the hierarchy. For reference, this means that any policies defined at the Product, Workspace, or Global level will not be inherited …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Friday, May 3, 2024

Azure API Management | Governing Product Visibility and Access via Groups

Overview In API Management, users and groups are a core aspect of the Developer Portal and are used to manage the visibility and access to respective products and their APIs. One of the common questions that I often get asked is, “how do I appropriately govern the groups effectively so that I …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Microsoft.Web/Connections | Access Policies

Problem Space I have recently been adding email alerting to some Logic App Standard workflows as part of the error handling flow. In doing so I made use of an existing Office 365 Outlook Connector in the Azure Subscription; the connector is not built in for Standard Logic Apps but is rather part of …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Bicep | User Defined Types

Problem Space Over the years of developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with either ARM templates or Bicep (since it was released in 2020), I have made it my best practice where possible to use well-defined base type parameters (Strings | Integers | Booleans) so that the templates are usable and …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Azure API Management | Logic App (Standard) Backend Using a Swagger Definition

Overview After setting up a Logic App (Standard) Backend in Azure API Management (APIM) in my last post, I wanted to try and see if I could create a Swagger definition from a Standard Logic App which could then be used to simplify the API authoring process in APIM. This post shows my methods of …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Thursday, February 1, 2024

Bicep Tips and Tricks (8 posts)