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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 ability to create mocks for your API’s. In this post I will be walking through API mocking and how to achieve this within Bicep Templates for deployment.

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Sunday, September 18, 2022

Azure Role Assignment

Problem Space: I recently came into some issues with assigning Azure roles through a Bicep template and pipeline deployment. I was looking to assign ‘Storage Blob Data Reader’ to a service principal, and refine their access to only the container of the storage account. The three main issues that I ran into were: What are Role Assignment Conditions and how can I use them in my template? I am trying to assign a built in role, what is the roleDefinitionId that I should be using?

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Friday, September 2, 2022