A very important point you must understand when it comes to working with Azure Functions is that that product is tightly bound to an Azure Storage account. You see, Azure Functions is a compute offering, when you provision that you are getting some CPU, some memory and a host to run the code on. The […]
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A common topic I would like to call out which I see in regards to security has to do with endpoints. I kind of want to call those endpoints “potentially vulnerable attack vectors”. I am a bit nervous writing “vulnerable” because the endpoints I mention here are secure, which is why I also called out […]
Read More →I was doing some deployments to an Azure Function and found this text file in my d:\home\site\wwwroot directory. This can happen if you are trying to run an Azure Function from package, which is discussed here. Real fast, the way you get this to happen is by making a deployment, then after the deployment is […]
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I have this Azure Function that is integrated with an Azure Virtual Network, using Regional integration as shown in Figure 1. Where Regional VNET Integration is ARM based and the resources are located in the same Azure region. The other type of VNET integration is uses the classic integration method or if you need to […]
Read More →This would apply to Azure App Services too. This is an interesting feature. To me it resembles or provides the ability to force tunnel. The implementations of forced tunneling I have seen have typically been configured using route tables. Where the route table is a matrix of IP addresses (see Figure 6) that instructs TCP […]
Read More →I started my learning of Azure Functions, I.e. Service-less computing by writing this .NET Core Console application which calls the following Azure Functions each with a different trigger type. I hosted the console application on GitHub here. You will need the .NET Core runtime installed on your work station to run the console app, check […]
Read More →Which way did he go George, which way did he go? (*) When you create an Azure Function App, a requirement to complete the operation is the selection or creation of an Azure Storage Account where the content (code, json, etc…), required to run the Azure Functions are to be stored. Make sure the Storage […]
Read More →Azure is so awesome because the features it provides are so very dynamic and flexible. The platform provides a starting point for the fruition of ideas, ideas only limited by ones imagination. With its dynamic nature and the flexibility it delivers to consumers, sometimes you just need a note to get your ideas optimally flowing […]
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Here is what I wanted to do. Add some code like this to my ASP.NET application. using System.Diagnostics; … System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(“System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine() in the Page_Load method”); Trace.Write(“Trace.Write() in the Page_Load method”); System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceError(“System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceError() in the Page_Load method”); System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceWarning(“System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceWarning() in the Page_Load method”); System.Diagnostics.Trace .TraceInformation(“System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceInformation() in the Page_Load method”); Then I wanted to write those logs out to […]
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Instead of storing user id / passwords or database connection strings in source or configuration files, you should consider storing them in an Azure Key vault. Azure Function 400 Bad Request How to connect to a database from an Azure Function Create an Azure Key Vault secret How to connect to a database from an […]
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