I am working on a share feature for Sharp Cooking that will allow users to share recipes online. This is the first time a feature will require storing data outside of the local app context, and Cosmos DB is a great option for implementing it. First, it provides a free tier that should be sufficient for my users. Second, Sharp Cooking already stores recipes as documents in the browser, so it should be easy to send the same data to Cosmos DB....
Deploying an Azure App Gateway can be a daunting task, especially when creating a reusable template for it due to the verbosity of the template. In this post, I will describe how to create and execute a Bicep template for an externally visible web app with an Application Gateway. By the end of this post, the following requirements will be met: Web app hosted in App Service with Azure-provided certificate for TLS Web Application Firewall (WAF) with OWASP 3....
Sharp Cooking app can currently import recipes directly from websites and backup files, making it easy to create a personal collection of recipes. However, it does not currently provide an option to scan recipes from a book or an image. This has been a long-requested feature that I am now attempting to add to the app, and will document the experience in this post. How? The first thing that comes to mind when trying to extract text from images is OCR....
I recently had to copy a few certificates between Azure key vaults. These certificates were issued in one key vault but given access restrictions, they were consumed from another key vault. Note 1: copying certificates between key vaults is generally a bad idea as the copied certificate will not follow any automatic renewal setup for the original. The powershell script below was imported mostly from this StackOverflow answer. The primary change done was to use the X509Certificate2 class constructor instead of the Import method which is not recommended....