How to use Managed Identity and APIM to call Azure Services from an APIM policy directly
Back in June, I wrote a blog post on API Management and how you can use API Management policies to enforce access restriction policies. I was going to write a follow up post on how to use API Management policies in further scenarios, though it’s one of those scenarios where great minds think …
Published on Tue, Aug 17, 2021
Cloud With Chris - Moving Forwards
You may have noticed there are some posts preceding this one. I’ve had a few attempts at putting my own personal blog together, but over time, my posts dwindle… Well, given the recent success with my Cloud with Chris podcast, I’m beginning to consolidate… Starting with my …
Published on Sat, Jan 2, 2021
Using GPG Keys to sign Git Commits - Part 4
Part 4 - The final part (at least for now, until I find somewhere else that we can expand on with this)! This part will focus on porting the keys that we have recently generated onto our YubiKey device. I own a YubiKey NEO, so I’ll be using that.
Note: Be aware that the YubiKey NEO has a …
Technology DevOps Git Security Authentication
Published on Wed, Mar 17, 2021
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Introduction to The Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr)
In this post, we’re going to explore the Open Source project known as Dapr (The Distributed Application Runtime). This post is primarily aimed at those who already have an understanding of Containers, Kubernetes and Microservices. However, if you’re not familiar with these topics - …
Containers Kubernetes Microservices Open Source Development
Thu, Jan 13, 2022
Gaining insight into user behaviour with Microsoft Clarity
I love learning. Especially when it’s about brand new things that I wasn’t aware of! For this post, I need to give a big shout out to my friend and colleague Sam Rowe for the tip. It wasn’t a product/service that I was aware of, but felt like something that could be useful for me …
Web Development Observability Monitoring
Sun, Jan 9, 2022
Cloud With Chris 2021 Recap
It’s hard to believe that 2021 is done, and we’re now in 2022. In one sense, it feels like a “blink and you miss it” year. In another way, it feels as though it’s been one of the longest years to have passed us by.
It’s fair to say that 2021 has had its …
Review Achievements Blogging Community
Sat, Jan 1, 2022
I'm back. Let's talk.
You will have noticed that there haven’t been any updates on Cloud With Chris for some time. I’ve also been quiet on social media. For any of my colleagues, you may have seen by my out of office messages that I’ve had time away from work. In this blog post, I want to open up about …
Mental Health Depression Anxiety
Sun, Dec 19, 2021
Using Azure DevOps and Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set Agents to deploy your private workloads
A little while ago, I wrote a blog post on Using the GitHub self-hosted runner and Azure Virtual Machines to login with a System Assigned Managed Identity, which seems to get a good amount of views week on week. Reflecting on some questions that have popped up this week (and regularly received over …
Azure DevOps Azure Pipelines Azure DevOps
Fri, Oct 8, 2021
What is the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework?
Migrating to the Cloud is more than just deciding which technology you want to adopt, or building out the appropriate architectures for your implementation. There is a significant amount of planning needed before you take your initial steps. For example, the initial migration process, establishing a …
Azure Cloud Cloud Migration Cloud Adoption
Mon, Sep 20, 2021
Shift Left and Increase your Code Quality with Azure DevOps Branch Policies
What are Branch Policies?
This post is similar to another I recently wrote on using Branch Protection Rules in GitHub. Instead of focusing on GitHub, we’ll be looking at how you can use Branch Policies in Azure DevOps (specifically, Azure Repos). If you’re using Azure Repos, but not …
DevOps Azure DevOps Developer DevSecOps Cloud
Thu, Sep 9, 2021
Fix for .bashrc not executing on startup in Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux
In case you haven’t heard, I’m planning to do some livestreams in the near future which are focused on live development / building in the cloud. I’m working on a few ideas, but if you have any suggestions - please throw them my way! To prepare for this, I’ve recently spent …
Linux Developer Windows Terminal Command-Line
Mon, Sep 6, 2021
Shift Left and Increase your Code Quality with GitHub Branch Protection Rules
What are Branch Protection Rules?
If you’re using GitHub as your source control provider, then I’d encourage you to using Branch Protection Rules if you’re not already doing so! In this blog post, we’ll cover what Branch Protection Rules are and how they can increase your …
DevOps GitHub Developer DevSecOps Cloud
Mon, Aug 30, 2021
Why you should care about Azure Front Door Standard and Premium
Azure Front Door - It’s an Azure Service that has been generally available for quite some time. It went Generally Available (GA) in April of 2019 after being in Public Preview since September 2018. It’s had several updates since, including a slew of Web Application Firewall enhancements, …
Architecture Azure Azure Resilience
Thu, Aug 26, 2021