There are so many posts about deploying KeyCloak on Azure App Service, inside a docker container. But recently I wanted to install it on Azure App Service “bare metal”, (as bare as it gets on an Azure App Service!) i.e. without using docker. Here is what I discovered and did to get it up andContinue reading “Install/Deploy KeyCloak Standalone Server on Azure App Service (No Docker)”
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Access Control for Azure (Blob) Storage Containers
You can grant read/write access for individual Azure storage (V1 or V2) containers (e.g. a Blob storage container) to Azure active directory users: Let us say we want the user testuser@mydomain.onmicrosoft.com have merely read access to the (private) container auditinfoclient01. To accomplish this, just choose the container in the Azure portal and open the AccessContinue reading “Access Control for Azure (Blob) Storage Containers”
From Local Video to Azure Media Services
I got the task of building a video streaming prototype based on the Azure Media Services the other day. All I had was a sample .mp4 video, and an azure Subscription for testing purposes, and of course the boundless ocean of knowledge, the internet. I gleaned information from Microsoft documentations, Stack Overflow, etc. and IContinue reading “From Local Video to Azure Media Services”
Azure Key Vault: Transfer secrets using Powershell (Different Subscriptions)
Recently I had to copy more than 50 secrets (names and values) from one Azure KeyVault to another one. The two KeyVaults are on different subscriptions. Doing this manually is very tiresome and error prone. So I decided to do it in the right way… Here is my favorite reference for Azure Powershell modules andContinue reading “Azure Key Vault: Transfer secrets using Powershell (Different Subscriptions)”
Java: Key store and pfx files
There is a Java-based web application in our company which is going to be extended to be able to communicate with a certain tax authority through an API. The tax authority issues a pfx file containing a key and a certificate and expects all API requests to contain the pfx (as base64 string) and its pin (the password for encrypting the pfx) in certain fields. The Java-based application uses a jks Java key store to store all kind of certificates and keys. The team has decided that the pfx should be stored in the key sore using Java Key Tool. The service responsible for communication with the tax authority then has to retrieve it and use it for the communication through the API. This is exactly what I am supposed to implement. Let’s startContinue reading “Java: Key store and pfx files”
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