Let’s assume we have the following reference scenario, which we’ll use just for simplicity: A fictitious commercial freight business moves large volumes of goods all over Europe. It has two legally registered offices, one in the Netherlands (Western Europe) and the other in Ireland (Northern Europe), where the accounting departments are located. The business’ board…
Read MoreManaging user access in Atlassian Cloud can become complex, especially when integrating with Identity Providers (IDPs) for user provisioning via SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management). A common challenge arises when users who were initially synchronized through your IDP become deactivated after moving them from a group synchronized with Atlassian. Due to the SCIM link,…
Read MoreAt SharpCoding 2025 in Rome – hosted at Microsoft’s headquarters – I had the pleasure of sharing our approach to simplifying deployments using Azure Container App Jobs. In my session, “Guided Deployments: Power Platform under Control with Azure DevOps,” I discussed how we tackled the challenge of reliably extracting, versioning and deploying custom power platform…
Read MoreWhen deploying new features, releasing your code into a production environment might not be as easy as it seems. To ensure the minimal amount of service disruption, we might want to easily roll back to a previous configuration or to gradually migrate traffic to a new one. That’s where blue-green deployment comes to our aid….
Read MoreFor our use case, we need to be able to deploy Azure machines using Ansible from developer’s laptops and from our own CI/CD infrastructure both on Jenkins and OpenShift. The easiest way to ship a working and easy-to-use environment for our use case is to create a Docker instance: we based our Docker on rockylinux…
Read MoreBoth Microsoft and Google will terminate within summer/autumn 2022 the possibility of accessing POP and IMAP mailboxes using usernames and passwords! In the course of the year 2022 Microsoft and Google will terminate support for Basic Auth (the authentication with username and password) for some web services and pass to a more secure method, often…
Read MoreMore and more enterprises rely on Microsoft Azure Active Directory as a company-wide identity provider for Office365, Teams, Sharepoint and other Microsoft and various non-Microsoft services. It provides Single Sign-On (SSO), so when opening any of these applications, if an authorization is needed, you will always be redirected to the same, trusted, company-wide login page….
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