Microsoft Azure offers the possiblity to use Key Vault secrets for authenticating with an Azure Storage Account with the benefit that the key rotation is managed by Azure. This following script grants permissions for the Key Vault to the Storage Account and configures the SAS key to be updated daily based on the Storage Account’s […]
This blog post is from march 2017. The cloud changes fast so it could be outdated at the moment you read it. To provide a secure authentication and authorization method to your website, Azure provides you with a few authentication providers like Azure Active Directory, Facebook, Twitter and Google. In this blog we will use Azure Active […]
A Storage Account in Azure has two account keys which can be used to access the Storage Account. These keys give complete permission to the Storage Account so it is very important to keep these keys private. Another way to assign permissions to a Storage Account is to use Shared Access Signatures (SAS). SAS is […]
Azure HDInsight is an Apache Hadoop distribution powered by the cloud. This means that it handles any amount of data, scaling from terabytes to petabytes on demand. Spin up any number of nodes at any time. Since HDInsight is a PaaS offering, it is by default publicly accessable from any internet connection. The cluster contains […]