Azure

Azure-Sync is a handy shell script tool designed to help .NET developers working with Azure App Services. Inspired by the functionality provided by the Azure Functions Core Tools (func cli), Azure-Sync allows you to retrieve all environment variables from a specified Azure App Service, including any Azure KeyVault secrets, and add them to your local .NET secrets. Check the source code on GitHub: mhdbouk/azure-sync How to use Azure-Sync Using azure-sync is straightforward. Here are the steps ...

Suppose you have your Web App and Database server hosted locally on your On-Premises servers. You want to use Azure Key Vault with your .NET application to retrieve your app settings. This allows you to avoid storing them as plain text in the appsettings.json file. In this blog post, I will show you how to integrate Azure Key Vault with your .NET application by using the Service Principle client secret. This approach can be applied to any environment even the on-premise one. ...

SonarQube is a popular open-source platform for continuous code inspection that helps developers identify and fix coding issues, security vulnerabilities, and other bugs in their codebase. As someone who has worked on multiple software projects, I can attest to the importance of having a tool like SonarQube in your toolkit. It saves time and prevents headaches by catching issues early on rather than at the end of a project. Recently, I struggled with deploying the latest version of SonarQube on Azure App Service, so I created the repository mhdbouk/azure-sonarqube (github.com) to document my process and help others avoid the same pitfalls. In this blog post, I’ll share my experience with deploying SonarQube on Azure App Service and provide the repository for anyone who may find it useful. ...

If you’re looking for a simple and efficient way to deploy your application on Azure, you’re in the right place. In this blog post, I will guide you through the process of deploying an existing docker image on Azure using Bicep. It’s easier than you might think, and a lot more fun too! You can find all of the information discussed in this blog post in my GitHub repository, located at mhdbouk/libretranslate-bicep (github.com) ...

If you’re used to working with Azure SQL Server without a private endpoint or virtual network, you might be used to adding your public IP to the Azure SQL Server Firewall rules each time your public IP changes. Luckily, there’s an easy option: use the Azure CLI to update the network firewall rules with your new public IP. Get the Public IP using PowerShell Getting your public IP address is quick and easy with PowerShell. Just use the following command: ...