Alerts on Azure Function failures

So, you have a few functions running. Maybe some of those functions are important and you would like to be alerted when they fail.

In this article I’ll cover that exact scenario. We will do that in the following steps:

• Deploy a recurrent function which fails %50 of the time (by design)
• Define...

Introduction to AKS

I had the pleasure to present an introduction to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to a customer crowd yesterday.

A big part of the presentation was a demo of basic functionalities where I went through the creation of pods, deployments, services & looked at monitoring.

The demo is on GitHub here.

I thought I would share that as it can...

API Management - OAuth and private back-ends

Azure API Management is a fully managed API Gateway service.

In my last article we looked at the anatomy of the service. Today I wanted to demonstrate how to use OAuth with JWT token to protect an API Front End. I also wanted to show how we can access backend APIs...

Anatomy of API Management

When I want to wrap my head around a non-trivial Azure service with a few moving parts, I like to draw a diagram.

That might be from my UML days or it might just be that I reason better with boxes that concepts spread in documentation and APIs. In general, it helps me...

Azure App Service Authentication with Azure Front Door

Last time, we looked at Azure Front Door being used as a reverse proxy in front of Azure App Service.

We are going to increase the difficulty level today by looking at how to implement Azure AD authentication(also called easy auth) in Azure App Service behind Azure Front Door.

Although that...