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Azure API Management | Logic App (Standard) Backend

Overview Updated [31/01/2024]: See New Post showing methods of linking a Logic App Standard as a Backend to APIM through a Swagger Definition. I have recently been reviewing the method in which a Logic App (Standard) workflow would be setup as an API in API Management. My aim is to overcome and …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Azure RBAC Key Vault | Role Assignment for Specific Secret

Background Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) provides fine grained control over access to Azure resources. Azure RBAC is founded on top of the Azure Resource Manager which allows us to provide access authorisation at differing scope levels ranging from the Management Group through to …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Azure API Management | Unintentional Pass through of Subscription Key Header

Problem Space There is a potential unintentional side effect when you add a APIM subscription key as a header to an inbound request. The header is not stripped from the request prior to being sent to the configured backend service. Rather it is retained. If you manage the backing service and are not …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Bicep | Deployment Scope Hopping

Background An Azure Tenant is hierarchically structured with the following make up: Tenant One or more Management Groups One or more Subscriptions One or more Resource groups One or more Resources Deployment Scopes {Tenant, Management Group, Subscription, Resource Group} allow us to deploy …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Bicep | Conditional Iterative Deployment

Background I have recently been looking at creating multiple of the same resource using Bicep. There is however a condition where I would wish for the set of resources not to be deployed. The following stages show my work through of this particular problem (using a storage account resource as an …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Tuesday, April 11, 2023

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Has a passion for creating software [especially solution integrations] that help others execute their jobs faster and more efficiently.

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