We can make authenticated calls to Cosmos DB using System Assigned Managed Identities instead of using connection strings. — In Azure, Managed Identities provide our Azure resources with an identity within Azure Active Directory. We can use this identity to authenticate with any service in Azure that supports Azure AD authentication without having to manage credentials. …

In this post, we’re going to be talking about Types in Go — In this post, we’re going to be talking about Types in Go. We have our developer environment setup so we’re ready to dive into more Golang code. In this post, I’ll be talking about types and variables in Go. If you’ve used other languages, you may notice as we go…

In this article, I’ll show you how you can install Go and setup VS Code to start developing apps in Go. — I’ve been wanting to learn Go for a while now. I’ve tried and failed to keep my learning consistent, so I’ve decided to force myself to keep on top of my learning through a couple of avenues: This Blog I’ve set up. This GitHub repo. In that GitHub repo, I’ll…

Using GitHub Actions, we can deploy new versions of our Container Apps as our images are updated — In a previous blog post, I talked about how we can provision an Azure Container App using Bicep and deploying our Bicep template using GitHub Actions. We’ll now turn our attention to updating the images that our Container App uses by building the new image, deploying it to Azure Container…

Using Bicep, we can deploy Azure Container Apps quickly and easily! — Using Bicep, we can deploy and manage all the resources required for our Azure Container Apps. In this post, we’ll write a Bicep template that defines all the infrastructure required for our Container App and deploy it using the AZ CLI. …

Using Deployment slots, we can perform Blue/Green deployments in Azure App Service to achieve zero-downtime deployments for our containerized workloads. Application uptime is critical for our cloud applications. Using Azure App Service slots, we can implement the Blue/Green deployment pattern to validate that new versions of our application will perform…