Azure Weekly

Issue #410 - 19th March 2023

I'm going to keep it brief as there are quite a lot of updates in this edition, and you're probably all getting rather sick of GPT4 or Microsoft Copilot announcements swamping every social media channel! Two updates of note that got my attention: Public preview: Data API builder instantly creates modern REST and GraphQL endpoints for modern databases, this could be a boon for developers creating simple, modern web apps. It's also good to see Public preview: Azure Static Web Apps support for A Record.

Another interesting article from Sam Cogan - Azure Spring Clean: Compliance for Bicep with Checkov, and from Leo Visser about using Traffic Analytics and Network watcher to spot misconfigurations in your Azure Networks.

Finally, a shameless plug from me. It's quite rare these days that I get a chance to blog, but I had to enter 100+ community activities for the MVP Renewal process, and I used that as an excuse to use Playwright to see if I could automate the process. The only problem is that all my identities have 2FA enabled. This was my solution & I wanted to share it: Using the Playwright C# SDK to automate 2FA authentication for AAD and MSA. Hopefully this will be useful for anyone who wants to automate UI tests on a site protected by AAD / AAD B2C.