Azure App Configuration

When building an MCP server for my side project (Biotrackr), one of the first things I had to think about was how to manage secrets. The MCP server needs an APIM subscription key to call downstream health data APIs, and it also exposes an API key for clients connecting to it. That’s two secrets that need to be stored, distributed, and protected and if either one leaks, the blast radius could extend across the entire platform. ...

In Azure App Configuration, we can implement feature flags that allows us to decouple feature releases from code deployment and allows us to implement changes quickly to feature availability on demand. This allows us to test new features in production, turn features on or off without having to redeploy our code and wrap features around application functionality that we’re currently developing. There are some basic concepts to understand when working with feature management in Azure App Configuration: ...