Dot NET Developer Learnings: 2021

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Recently I've been working with the following:

Azure Managed Certificates became GA in March of this year. I've now used them across dozens of my personal and business services to bind to custom domain names and to Traffic Manger. They're really handy.

Finally implemented Azure Resource Locking for all my team's resources. On my old team the developers had limited permissions when it came to creating, editing, and deleting resources. However, on my new team the developers have Contributor access so can accidentally or maliciously edit and delete resources. I implemented Resource Locks in our pipelines to prevent accidental changes to our resources. This helps me sleep at night. Our automated pipelines could always re-deploy most resources. However, there'd be downtime if Compute got deleted or broken and there'd much worse implications if our Data resources got deleted.

I also just implemented IP Whitelisting for Azure DevOps. This used to be hard or impossible, but as of recently there are service tags for AzureDevOps.

Azure B2C

Azure B2C is an Identity provider used by businesses to manage their customer accounts. I've been using this at work now and having some fun learning some new tech.

Azure App Service Certificates

For a long time now SSL certificates have been available for free from LetsEncrypt. Now they're free from Azure as well. As of May 25, 2021 Azure App Managed Certificates are Generally Available. I'm not using these for a variety of services and have used them to bind my applications to both custom domain names as wells as Azure host names for Traffic Manager.

Tools

Finds:

API Intersection Podcast: hosted by the folks at Stoplight, this podcast dives into best practices around API design. It's fairly new and seems to include new episodes every Thursday. Perfect for my summer lunch jogs.

I have a developer tenant in Okta and would like to add a custom domain. This should be possible, all I need is a few things: