Recently, I created my first video about Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps, which you can find below. I also made a GitHub repository where you can find the source code, allowing you to set up the Azure Functions on ACA yourself.

In today's digital age, extracting text from images has become a common task in various domains, from document digitization to text analysis. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engines like Tesseract have played a significant role in making this process efficient and accessible. However, improving the accuracy and …

About 2 months ago I wrote a blog post about workload identity federation with GitHub Actions. When an application needs to access cloud based resources it often needs to think about authentication and authorization. Using workload identity federation there is no need to use any keys or secrets. For example, Google …

Usually when running software workload (e.g. script or container-based applications) an identity is involved for authentication and access resources. Software workload running inside Microsoft Azure can use a Service Principal or (User)-Managed Identity. However, when running software workload outside Azure most of the …

Detecting and discovering secrets or (hardcoded) passwords in a code repository should be an ongoing process for everyone involved in code development. But this process should not take all the time so that we have more time to contribute to good code quality. Fortunately, nowadays there are various tools that help us …

With the recently introduced service principal & managed identity in Azure DevOps by Microsoft it is now possible to replace the less secure Personal Access Token (PAT) to connect to Azure DevOps resources. These resources can be accessed via the Azure DevOps API such as Work Items, Pipelines and Repositories and …