This blog post is the start of a series on how to work with client certificates in Azure API Management to setup a mutual TLS (mTLS) connection. While Azure’s official documentation provides excellent guidance on setting up client certificates via the Azure Portal, we’ll dive into utilizing Bicep and the Azure CLI, to automate the process. In this first post, we’ll cover the basics of how to validate client certificates in API Management.
In this post I explain how to deploy an Azure workbook using Bicep and set environment specific variables. I’ll also show how to deploy a shared kusto function in Application Insights with the Azure CLI.
If you use Azure, you most likely use Application Insights for logging. You can use a dashboard to visualize your logging and gain better insights, but dashboards come with some limitations. For more flexibility Azure has worbooks. In this blog post I’ll share some tips & tricks that I’ve gathered over the years. As a sample, we’ll create a workbook that shows information about requests sent to an API Management instance.
In the past I’ve created a custom Azure Pipelines task to install .NET Core on a Windows server. To test this task, I had to manually setup an environment with virtual machines. I wanted to automate this process, so I created a YAML pipeline in Azure DevOps that automatically provisions an Azure virtual machine and registers the virtual machine in an Azure Pipelines environment.
