Robert de Veen

Robert de Veen

Using AWS SQS and Event Bridge Pipes to send messages to ECS

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Today I was working on a integration to process message from an AWS Simple Queueing Services (SQS) Queue to a backend services. The specifics of this backend services doesn’t really matter for this post, the only thing relevant is that it using the old-school Windows Communication Framework (WCF). With a custom .NET application written in the beloved C# language, we can communicate with the backend.

This integration start with a third party putting a message on our queue. Because the amound of message we think this intergration would process we would like to make this integration serverless.

Lint your Bicep and Bicepparam files with GitHub Workflow

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Linters are a very powerfull tool to validate if your code is correct. With the new az bicep lint --file $file command you can validate if your Bicep and Bicepparam files are correct. This command is available in the Azure CLI and can be used in a GitHub Action.

Create a (free!) App Services Managed Managed Certificates with Bicep

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Create a (free!) App Services Managed Certificate with Bicep

An certificates in Azure App Services is bind to an host name, this can be an apex (or naked) domain (https://robertdeveen.com) or a subdomain (https://www.robertdeveen.com or https://subdomain.robertdeveen.com), or a combination of these two (for example one certificate for https://robertdeveen.com and https://www.robertdeveen.com).

To create an App Services Managed Certificate there are two ways to create a certificate with Bicep. One for a apex domain and one for an subdomain. The validation of the ownership of the domain is the main difference. To generate a certificate the certificate authority would like to validate that the domain you try to get a certificate for is yours. That you are the owner of that (sub)domain name.