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Securely uploading blob files to Azure Storage from API Management
12/26/2023, Azure PaaS Blog
Agenda This article will provide a demonstration on how to utilize either SAS token authentication or managed identity from API Management to make requests to Azure Storage. Furthermore, it will explore and compare the differences between these two options.   Comparision The choice between Managed Identity and SAS Token depends on factors such as the level of control required, the duration of access, and the specific security requirements of your application. Both options offer different levels of access control and security features for accessing Azure Storage.   Azure Managed Identity...
Performing simple File Storage REST API operations using Postman
12/18/2023, Azure PaaS Blog
The blog provides guidance to perform simple File storage REST API operations such as Create, Copy, Rename and Delete operations using Postman.   Let’s look at some of the command syntax to perform REST API operations and will be making use of SAS as the auth scheme.  We need to take care of the pointers below while performing the operations via Postman:  Ensure the URL is formed correctly as per the operation you are trying to perform. The mandatory header needs to be passed. Ensure you are appending/removing extra ‘?’ to the SAS token in the URLs accordingly. Http verb can be GET, PUT...
How to build customized container image for Azure Batch
3/10/2023, Azure PaaS Blog
Sometimes, users will need to install some necessary software/packages in the environment before the task is executed. This can be easily done by using Start task feature of Azure Batch.   But when there are many dependencies to be installed, for example 20 packages in Linux and the installation of some of them will take long time such as Tensorflow, it will cause additional problems such as long start task running time when Azure Batch starts Batch node every time or even possible timeout issue or start task failure issue.   In order to avoid this issue, user has two options: Custom...
Search Service fails to update an Indexer when the Storage account is behind a firewall
11/10/2022, Azure PaaS Blog
Scenario: You have created a Search Service and you want to import your data from the Storage account which is behind a firewall.   There are certain times when you need to update your Indexer for additional properties for a particular search service. So, while trying to update the Indexer, you navigate to “Add Indexer” option and then under Settings tab, you update the required properties.   While updating the Indexer, suddenly you encounter that it failed with the below error message. Failed to update indexer ‘xxxxxx-indexer', error: 'Error with data source: Credentials provided in the...