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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 Azure Cosmos DB, we can use managed identities to provide resources with the roles and permissions required to perform actions on our data (depending on what role we provide the identity) without having to use any connection strings or access keys to do so. ...

I’ve spent a lot of time with GitHub Actions lately and it’s been a lot of fun. I’ve had quite a bit of experience using Azure DevOps in my previous jobs and before GitHub Actions were a thing, I’d create Service Connections in Azure DevOps so that I could host my code in GitHub, but still run my build and deploy pipelines in Azure DevOps. This isn’t to say that GitHub Actions is better than Azure DevOps, nor vice-versa. This article is purely an informational piece on HOW you can use GitHub Actions to deploy your Functions to Azure. Specifically we’ll talk about: ...

In Go, we can use conditional statements to execute code based on different conditions. We can also use if, else if and if else statements to execute code provided if a condition is true or false. If/else statements are commonplace in programming, so if you’re already a seasoned programmer you won’t spend long here. But as always, we’ll take our time and make sure we understand fully what’s going on. ...

So the Golang learning adventure continues! 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 through this that Go has some differences in how it uses types compared to other languages. In this article, we’ll be covering: What types are available to us? Assigning values in Go Constants in Go I’ve built a very simple Go file that works with different types in Go which you can view here. Please feel free to clone it, copy/paste it and play around with it. ...

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 be adding content on both Golang itself and building applications with Go that use Azure. I’ll be building this repo up over time, but if you have a particular sample or scenario that you’d like me to create, please feel free to raise an issue. ...