Bulk import users into Azure AD B2C tenant with custom attributes

30th of October, 2018 / Adeel Nasir / No Comments

I would like to extend the sample available here to import users in bulk, current sample at the URL only creates a single user but we may have a situation where we want to migrate users from some other identity store to Azure AD B2C tenant.

We will be uploading a csv file to a storage account and the webjob will be reading it to create users into the B2C directory.

Login to Azure AD B2C tenant with your admin credentials (it would be something like YourUserName@YourB2CTenant.onmicrosoft.com).… [Keep reading] “Bulk import users into Azure AD B2C tenant with custom attributes”

Make Your Azure WebJobs Unit Testable Again

6th of September, 2017 / Justin Yoo / No Comments

In my previous posts, we had a look at testability for serverless applications. In this post, we’re going to apply a similar approach to Azure WebJobs.

The sample code used in this post can be found here.

For either scheduled WebJob instance or on-demand WebJob instance, it’s just a console application that we’re not dealing with. However, when we look at the continuous running WebJob instance, it will be a different story. Let’s have a look at the basic WebJob code.… [Keep reading] “Make Your Azure WebJobs Unit Testable Again”

Order to Take Storage Account Settings on Azure WebJobs

19th of August, 2017 / Justin Yoo / No Comments

Recently, with a new customer engagement, I’ve been building Azure WebJob instances. We are all aware that Azure WebJobs require a connection string to Azure Storage Account. In this post, I’m writing a very interesting fact around the storage account connection string, which I’ve found.

Acknowledgement

In this post, the Azure WebJob instance is written in the following environment:

.NET Framework 4.6.2
Azure WebJob SDK 2.0.0

Location of Connection String

There are two different locations that we can possibly store the storage account connection strings in Web.config… [Keep reading] “Order to Take Storage Account Settings on Azure WebJobs”

Know Your Cloud Resource Costs on Azure

5th of May, 2017 / Justin Yoo / No Comments

An organisation used to invest their IT infrastructure mostly for computers, network or data centre. Over time, they spent their budget for hosting spaces. Nowadays, in cloud environments, they mostly spend their funds to purchase computing power. Here’s a simple diagram about the cloud computing evolution. From left to right, expenditure shifts from infrastructure to computing power.

Image from: Building Serverless Integration Solutions with Azure Logic Apps by Paco de la Cruz

In the cloud environment, when we need resources, we just create and use them, and when we don’t need them any longer, we just delete them.… [Keep reading] “Know Your Cloud Resource Costs on Azure”

Azure Functions or WebJobs? Where to run my background processes on Azure?

14th of September, 2016 / Paco de la Cruz / 14 Comments

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Introduction

Azure WebJobs have been a quite popular way of running background processes on Azure. They have been around since early 2014. When they were released, they were a true PaaS alternative to Cloud Services Worker Roles bringing many benefits like the WebJobs SDK, easy configuration of scalability and availability, a dashboard, and more recently all the advantages of Azure Resource Manager and a very flexible continuous delivery model. My colleague Namit previously compared WebJobs to Worker Roles.… [Keep reading] “Azure Functions or WebJobs? Where to run my background processes on Azure?”

Monitoring Azure WebJobs Health with Application Insights

11th of August, 2016 / Paco de la Cruz / 11 Comments

Introduction

Azure WebJobs have been available for quite some time and have become very popular for running background tasks with programs or scripts. WebJobs are deployed as part of Azure App Services (Web Apps), which include their companion site Kudu. Kudu provides a lot of features, including a REST API, which provides operations for source code management (SCM), virtual file system, deployments, accessing logs, and for WebJob management as well. The Kudu WebJobs API provides different operations including listing WebJobs, uploading a WebJob, or triggering it.… [Keep reading] “Monitoring Azure WebJobs Health with Application Insights”