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Azure Role Based Access Control (RBAC) | Removing Orphaned Role Assignments

Problem Space

Deploying solutions into Azure that rely on Role Based Access often involve us creating IaC automation for the assignment of roles, such as:

A services access to Key Vault
A services access to a Key Vault specific secret
A services access to a storage account
A services access to a …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Thursday, July 4, 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 …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Thursday, February 1, 2024

Windows Terminal | Azure Customisation for PowerShell

If you haven’t already, placing a customisation on your command prompt for PowerShell is a great way to gain extra context in given activities. For example, if you would like to have a comprehensive overview of your Git status summary information, then posh-git is for you.

posh-git

Be Careful: …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Thursday, November 30, 2023

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