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containers

Azure, Identity Provider

Running KeyCloak on Azure App Service and Azure SQL using managed identities

I’ve recently been seeing a lot of developers diving into the world of authentication and asking for recommendations on what to use as an Identity Provider (IdP). There’s plenty of IdP out there. If you’ve been following me, I’ve done some posts on Identity Server (before it was Duende). I’m a big fan of Microsoft Entra (for the workforce) and Entra External ID (successor of Azure AD B2C), for external identities not related to your organization, for it’s simplicity and for it’s SaaS abilities, as IdPs are, in my eyes, mission critical parts of your ecosystem: if it goes down, your whole system is down. Any SaaS IdP allows me to focus on my application and not managing an IdP…

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October 30, 2024 | by Dominique St-Amand | Leave a comment
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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October 17, 2024 | by Dominique St-Amand | 2 Comments