Azure, Debugging, Web, WebApi

Debugging a managed identity connection to Azure SQL in Azure App Service using containers

So you’ve been eager to deploy your containerized web application that you’ve been working on for a while, to Azure App Service. You follow the best security practices which means you’ve setup your connection to your Azure SQL database using a managed identity. Upon loading your application, you get a dreadful exception that you can’t connect to the database. You then wonder, is this a database permission problem or some another problem, such as the application cannot connect to the database using its managed identity. This problem is even tougher to diagnose in applications such as Custom Off the Shelf (COTS) that you don’t have the source code. Rest assured, this happen to the best of us (yes, even me!)….

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