Kalle Marjokorpi

Topic

Azure

A collection of 20 pages

How to model and organize Azure resource groups in a microservices environment?

This blog post introduces some principles to consider when modeling and organizing resource groups & resources in a microservices environment. Resource groups are one piece in the puzzle and you should also check Microsoft's great documentation (Cloud Adoption Framework) about how to model management groups and subscriptions. You

How to boost developer workflow activities with Azure Developer CLI?

This blog post is an overview of the Azure Developer CLI tool and how it helps to boost developer workflow activities. Microsoft has created a lot of great documentation about Azure Developer CLI. This blog post concentrates only main points and especially how to create a Web API project (App

Lessons learned when creating reusable YAML templates

I recently wrote about how to utilize reusable YAML templates in Azure DevOps. A shared source control repository for YAML templates gives great value from a re-usability point of view. This blog post concentrates more on how you should formulate YAML templates to make them as reusable as possible. Template

Azure Bicep - Insert Resource feature in VS Code

What is the Insert Resource feature? Recently Bicep v0.4.1124 was released and it contains a very interesting "Insert Resource" feature. This feature allows you to create Bicep configuration from existing Azure resources in VS Code. This increases productivity if you're just now starting to

How to handle application-specific settings in the Azure App Service platform?

There are multiple ways to handle application-related settings when using Azure App Service. Typically application needs ex. database connection string and authentication-related parameters which should be able to change without deploying the application again. This blog post presents a comparison of typical ways to handle application settings in Azure App

Get notified about service health incidents that have occurred in Azure

Wouldn't be nice to receive notifications about any service health incidents that have occurred in Azure? Automated notifications about platform issues could save your troubleshooting time. The status of the Azure service is publicly available here but this site basically offers only a traffic light view without detailed

Lessons learned: Assigning Access Policies to KeyVault with Bicep

Example architecture The chart below describes a quite typical architecture where Microservice resources and KeyVault have their own resource groups. KeyVault is typically located in its own resource group because it's often considered as an environment-specific resource that is used by multiple resources/services. This blog post covers

Apple Health CDA data conversion to FHIR with Handlebar engine

Previous blog post I showed how to export Apple Health data to the Azure API for FHIR as an attachment document. This is not a very useful approach, especially from the search perspective. This blog post shows how to create a new handlebar template for the FHIR converter which creates

How to setup Strava to Azure API for FHIR integration?

Do you need to automatically import data from Strava to Azure API for FHIR? This blog post shows how to create a simple integration from Strava to Azure API for FHIR. The integration enables the conversion of Strava exercise data to the FHIR observation resource and sends it to Azure

How to export Apple Health data to Azure API for FHIR?

Nowadays Azure has many healthcare-specific services. This blog post introduces you to the FHIR converter and Azure API for FHIR service. I'll show you a simple example of how to export Apple Health data to Azure API for FHIR. What is Azure API for FHIR? The Azure API