I recently worked with an even-driven solution that used Azure Event Grid to route different events to the Webhook endpoint. This blog post shows how to configure and create Azure infrastructure for EventGrid and Webhook-based event handlers. Configuring a Webhook type of event handler (subscription) via Bicep is a pretty

Background Are you operating in a complex Azure environment that contains multiple independent microservices and you're wondering how to model the environment with infrastructure as a code? This blog post is for you. This blog post shows how to structure/model infrastructure creation effectively with Bicep Modules in

Azure Platform Governance is a strategic enabler that determines guidelines, processes, and technologies on how to build a secure Azure environment according to best practices and organization requirements. Azure Platform Governance document gathers all these requirements into a single document. Azure Platform Governance ensures that all services developed by multiple

This blog post introduces some principles to consider when modeling and organizing resource groups & resources in a microservices environment. Resource groups are one piece in the puzzle and you should also check Microsoft's great documentation (Cloud Adoption Framework) about how to model management groups and subscriptions. You

I recently wrote about how to utilize reusable YAML templates in Azure DevOps. A shared source control repository for YAML templates gives great value from a re-usability point of view. This blog post concentrates more on how you should formulate YAML templates to make them as reusable as possible.  Template

My previous blog post covered how to use Postman in API testing and integrate API test execution into the Azure DevOps pipeline. The described solution assumed that API tests were exported to JSON-file which was added to the source control. Handling and maintaining API test JSON files in source control

I worked recently on a project where most of the Build and Release pipelines were refactored to utilize YAML and Bicep instead of using classic Azure pipelines and ARM templates. Refactoring was needed because some of the components used in the Azure pipelines weren't anymore supported by Azure

What is a Fluent Migrator? Fluent Migrator is a migration framework for .NET that enables the creation of database migrations by using C#. This basically means that you can create manually C# class for each migration. Fluent Migrator provides a Fluent API which is a really easy interface to construct

What is the Insert Resource feature? Recently Bicep v0.4.1124 was released and it contains a very interesting "Insert Resource" feature. This feature allows you to create Bicep configuration from existing Azure resources in VS Code. This increases productivity if you're just now starting to

Wouldn't be nice to receive notifications about any service health incidents that have occurred in Azure? Automated notifications about platform issues could save your troubleshooting time. The status of the Azure service is publicly available here but this site basically offers only a traffic light view without detailed

Example architecture The chart below describes a quite typical architecture where Microservice resources and KeyVault have their own resource groups. KeyVault is typically located in its own resource group because it's often considered as an environment-specific resource that is used by multiple resources/services. This blog post covers

This week I worked with Azure Bicep and YAML to deploy Azure infrastructure. This blog post shows how to utilize Azure Bicep and YAML ("build blocks") to deploy the Weather Forecast application and infrastructure to Azure. This sample utilizes the Weather Forecast application which was created in the