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Get a Managed Identity access token in Azure App Service through Advanced Tools (Kudu)

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Debugging access issues when using Managed Identities can be difficult, so here is a trick to getting an access token to inspect token contents or test access outside the app

Cleaning up Azure Durable Functions execution history

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Approaches for cleaning up execution history of completed Durable Functions instances

Using Azure RBAC with Azure Key Vault

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Exploring the new, standard way of granting access to Key Vault through Azure RBAC instead of access policies

Azure AD v2 and MSAL in 2020

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Updated look at the current state of the Azure Active Directory v2 endpoint and the Microsoft Authentication Library

How Azure Durable Functions scale

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Deep dive into how Azure Durable Functions handle scaling as the amount of work changes

ASP.NET Core Data Protection with Azure Key Vault and Azure Storage

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How to configure and use the combination of Azure Storage and Azure Key Vault for data protection in ASP.NET Core with the new Azure integration packages

Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier

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The new Free tier of Cosmos DB finally enables people to test this very versatile database service

Testing Azure AD-protected APIs, part 5: Pipelines in Azure DevOps

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In this part we look at how the integration tests made in third part can be run in Azure DevOps

Testing Azure AD-protected APIs, part 4: GitHub Actions CI workflow

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In the fourth part we look at how the integration tests made in the previous part can be run in a GitHub Actions workflow

Testing Azure AD-protected APIs, part 3: Automated integration tests

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In the third part we look at how we might build automated integration tests against an Azure AD-protected API

Hi! My name is Joonas Westlin, I'm a software developer who blogs about ASP.NET Core, Azure, and Web development.

Azure MVP, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Security Engineer Associate, Azure Developer Associate.