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Reliable and scalable infrastructure: Secrets

This is a series of posts: Introduction Principles Layers Traffic Secrets (this post) In the previous post we’ve discussed probably the most important aspect of running a service – the handling of live traffic. Without it it’s a not a … Continue reading

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How to get Tenant ID from Subscription ID in Azure using MSAL

This is a series of blog posts: Part 1: using PowerShell Part 2: using ADAL Part 3: using MSAL First you need to install AAD client NuGet package. Note this is MSAL, the modern and recommended way to communicate with … Continue reading

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How to get Tenant ID from Subscription ID in Azure using ADAL

This is a series of blog posts: Part 1: using PowerShell Part 2: using ADAL Part 3: using MSAL In previous part we did it this using a script, this time we’ll do it using C#. First you need to … Continue reading

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How to get Tenant ID from Subscription ID in Azure using PowerShell

This is a series of blog posts: Part 1: using PowerShell Part 2: using ADAL Part 3: using MSAL In order to do this, you’ll need: Call this Azure Resource Manager API without authentication, I suggest always use the latest … Continue reading

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Carnation Anapa Winery, vol 3, day 153: corking

Today I’m bottling my wine. I got a 6-gallom carboy that went down to about 5 during the initial testing. In the first batch I bottled 10 bottles. Each contains about 15g of water where I diluted about 0.8g of … Continue reading

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Following circular nested profile path identified

If you’re getting the following error: Circular nested profile definitions are not allowed. Following circular nested profile path identified: example.trafficmanager.net -> example.trafficmanager.net. Then very likely you got an ARM template like this: What means you created a Geographic traffic-routing based … Continue reading

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How to get secret from Key Vault using PowerShell and Managed Identity

First you need to acquire a token using Managed Identity by calling the local Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) endpoint: Note that audience must match the service you’re calling and is different from example calling ARM. Then call the Key Vault … Continue reading

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Reliable and scalable infrastructure: Traffic

This is a series of posts: Introduction Principles Layers Traffic (this post) Secrets Now you have multiple environments, each consisting of multiple data centers, each consisting of multiple scale units. How do you wire up them all together to be … Continue reading

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How to assigned permissions for user-assigned managed identity on multiple subscriptions in bulk

First get the subscriptions you want to assign permissions on: Then get the client id of the identity you to assign permissions for: Now perform the actual permissions assignment: That’s it, folks!

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Reliable and scalable infrastructure: Layers

This is a series of posts: Introduction Principles Layers (this post) Traffic Secrets When designing your service’s infrastructure, you need to remember that your deployment (or scale, more below) unit can go down at any point of time for any … Continue reading

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