DotnetFriday - October 2021 edition

A security edition. This time with Maik van der Gaag and Eduard Keilholz (me) as speakers. Maik went through the Azure Portal and showed us click by click how you can secure your services and set up a virtual network as a first security boundary. Then we continues with a session about how to bring your services from your DevOps environment in production in a secure way using DevSecOps with Azure DevOps

Maik van der Gaag

Maik van der Gaag is the CTO of 3fifty, an experienced consultancy company with a strong focus on the Microsoft Cloud. He has over 15 years’ experience providing architecture, development, training and design expertise. During his works he works in a variety of projects ranging from Cloud Transformations to DevOps implementations.

He loves to share is knowledge which was also one of the reasons why he founded the Dutch Cloud Meetup. Maik is a public speaker, writes blogs and organizes events. Microsoft has recognized him as Microsoft Azure MVP.

Session: Security measures for Azure PaaS

One of the characteristics of Platform as a Service components in Azure is that they are open for the complete world by default Azure PaaS offers great services but you do not want to have them open by default in many situations. For this reasons I see many companies switching back the known functionalities (IaaS) but that should not be the case. In this session you will learn how to secure services like Azure Functions, Azure App Service, Azure SQL Databases with the use of Azure Front Door, Azure Private Link and Virtual Networks and many more.

Eduard Keilholz

Eduard is a Cloud Solution Architect at 4DotNet (The Netherlands). He likes to help customers with implementing and experiencing cloud technologies. He likes to create highly performant software and help team members reach a higher skill level of software development. He focusses is on the Microsoft development stack, mainly C# and the Microsoft Azure Cloud, and has a strong affinity with Angular. He enjoys speaking at (inter)national conferences and contributing to community events. In 2020, Microsoft has recognized these community activities with the Microsoft MVP Award for Azure.

Session: Deploy your API secured, with a DevOps CI/CD pipeline

This session is all about DevOps and CI/CD. I will build an ASP.NET WebApi from scratch and deploy it using an Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline and Infrastructure as Code. I will show you how different ARM templates are compared to the new Bicep DSL, and discuss the advantages of building and deploying in an automated fashion.