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Using Docker images for your Azure web app is not brand-new functionality. But if you want to deploy your container-based web app using ARM templates and use your own Azure container registry, you might discover it's not as straightforward as you might think. In this article we will walk through the steps how we can make a connection to the container registry. In the end we will also make sure we do not have to pass along the password during the deployment.

Using Docker images for your Azure web app is not brand-new functionality. But if you want to deploy your container-based web app using ARM templates and use your own Azure container registry, you might discover it’s not as straightforward as you might think.

In this article we will walk through the steps how we can make a connection to the container registry. In the end we will also make sure we do not have to pass along the password during the deployment.

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These times should not prevent us from sharing knowledge and keep learning about great new technologies. For this, Info Support organized the lockdown lectures. I was honored to take part in this series and have people learn about the Open Application Model (OAM) and the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). Here I share with you the recording and slides.

These times should not prevent us from sharing knowledge and keep learning about great innovative technologies. For this, Info Support organized the lockdown lectures.

I was honored to take part in this series and have people learn about the Open Application Model (OAM) and the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr).

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When working with ARM Templates, chances are you have set a value that was a Storage Account Connection String. For example as the value of an appsetting, or as a secret in Azure Key Vault, which I did as an example in a previous blog post. However, this does not result in the most maintainable and readable piece of JSON. Even worse if you have multiple connection strings in the same template. In this article I will show that adding a User-Defined Function to our template can improve on this.

When working with ARM Templates, chances are you have set a value that was a storage account connection string. For example, as the value of an appsetting, or as a secret in Key Vault, which I did as an example in a previous article.

However, this does not result in the most maintainable and readable piece of JSON. Even worse if you have multiple connection strings in the same template.

In this article I will show that adding a user-defined function to our template can improve on this.

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This weekend I was speaking at WordCamp Nijmegen about the possibilities of hosting a WordPress site using Microsoft Azure. I’m sharing my Dutch slides here, and soon I hope to add the recording for WordPress TV in this post as well.

This weekend I was speaking at WordCamp Nijmegen about the possibilities of hosting a WordPress site using Microsoft Azure.

Even though I expected to get some criticism for dropping the Microsoft name at such an event, I felt very welcome. I experienced the event as a large group of very warm people from all over the world that are coming together to help each other out. And like Microsoft nowadays, they set a high standard with their code of conduct (in English).

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When recently creating a Linux Docker image using Docker for Windows, I ran into a couple of vague errors. Searching online for the error messages, weren’t any solutions. But luckily some suggestions put me on the right track. In this post I write about the solutions I found.

When recently creating a Linux Docker image using Docker Desktop for Windows, I ran into a couple of vague errors. Searching online for the error messages, there weren’t any solutions. But luckily some suggestions put me on the right track.

In this post I describe the solutions I found. Hopefully preventing you wasting time on the same issues.

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