How to solve “Error occurred during a cryptographic operation.” in Azure App Service

This article explains a couple of ways to fix an issue where after deployment, your Azure App Service suddenly starts throwing an error along the lines of “Error occurred during a cryptographic operation.at System.Web.Security.Cryptography.HomogenizingCryptoServiceWrapper.HomogenizeErrors”. The error or the StackTrace doesn’t point to anything helpful (understandably, it’ll point to a StartUp.cs…Continue reading How to solve “Error occurred during a cryptographic operation.” in Azure App Service

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How to update application settings for (all of your) App Services and Azure Functions on Azure using az cli?

Anyone still remember Log4Shell? The incredibly easy-to-exploit, zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a popular Java logging framework, that made arbitrary code execution extremely simple and straightforward. The vulnerability had existed unnoticed since 2013 and was simply a side effect of a nifty new feature implemented way back when. But that’s enough…Continue reading How to update application settings for (all of your) App Services and Azure Functions on Azure using az cli?

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swa emulator throwing “✖ Could not connect to “http://localhost:7071″. Is the server up and running?”?

This article explains how to get around a weird quirk in Azure Static Web Apps local development story. Well – one of the quirks anyway. A real showstopper issue I ran into. One, that isn’t even that serious – it’s just that the error message doesn’t help you at all.…Continue reading swa emulator throwing “✖ Could not connect to “http://localhost:7071″. Is the server up and running?”?

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How to update from deprecated Microsoft.Azure.Services.AppAuthentication to new and shiny Azure.Security.KeyVaults.Secrets?

So, a while ago I posted about a fairly simple way to write your code for fetching secrets (and other confidential stuff) from Azure Key Vault in such a way, that it would work the same way both in Azure and on your local dev box. I find this pretty…Continue reading How to update from deprecated Microsoft.Azure.Services.AppAuthentication to new and shiny Azure.Security.KeyVaults.Secrets?