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Managing Cloud Ready .NET App Secrets in Visual Studio

Premier DeveloperMay 31, 2020May 31, 202005/31/20

Secrets need to be handled with care and this is the responsibility of every developer. We’ve all read those news reports of someone accidently checking a production password into source control only to find out the next day that their credit card has been maxed out.

Azure SQL TDE failures – Activity log Alerts to rescue

Premier DeveloperMay 22, 2020May 22, 202005/22/20

The SQL Server connection to the Key Vault can be lost for various reasons of either the SQL Server (updates, backups etc..) or the Key Vault (Key expired, disabled etc.) Luckily Azure provides detailed logging and alerting through Azure Monitor Logs and Alerts.

Azure Key Vault and Transparent Data Encryption

Premier DeveloperFebruary 21, 2020Feb 21, 202002/21/20

Azure Key Vault is a tool for securely storing and accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, or certificates. A vault is a logical group of secrets.

Unseen secrets – using KeyVault to protect OAuth2 token requests

Premier DeveloperFebruary 12, 2020Feb 12, 202002/12/20

This sample implements an Azure Function App, which uses Azure KeyVault to sign OAuth2 client assertions used to obtain JWT tokens from Azure AD. The private key used to sign the client assertion and thus authenticate the function to Azure AD is generated in the KeyVault and never leaves that service (it is not exportable).

Centralized VM Certificate Deployment Across Multiple Regions with ARM Templates

Premier DeveloperFebruary 9, 2020Feb 9, 202002/9/20

Many systems still rely on certificate authentication. Those certificates need to be rotated and often managed from a central location. In this post, I will explain how to centralize your VM certificate deployment across multiple Azure Regions with ARM Templates and Key Vault.

Automating Releases to Separate Azure Resource Groups using both TFS and VSTS

Premier DeveloperJune 6, 2018Jun 6, 201806/6/18

This post is written collaboratively by Premier Developer Consultants Ilias Jennane and Daisy Chaussee along with App Dev Manager Wyn Lewis-Bevan. Read on to learn how to build a solution in TFS, release it in VSTS, and automate the deployments to separate Azure Resource Groups. Business Case: One of our customers recently challenged us ...

Protecting Secrets using VSTS and Azure Key Vault

Pam LahoudMarch 28, 2017Mar 28, 201703/28/17

In his latest blog post, Premier Developer consultant Najib Zarrari discusses one approach to protecting sensitive information in your application by using VSTS and Azure Key Vault. If you are building a modern application and are following modern design principles, there is a good chance your application is composed of a number of layers ...

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