- Sep 10, 2026
Moving a React app on Azure Static Web Apps to a Cloudflare custom domain
Moving a React app on Azure Static Web Apps to a Cloudflare-managed custom domain without exposing an unfinished site, and everything else the hostname touched: CORS, email and Stripe redirects.
6 min read · Azure · Cloudflare · DevOps
- Sep 6, 2026
A self-shutting-down Linux VM for a weekly batch job on Azure (.NET 8 + CZDS zone files)
About 280 million domain names from ~1,000 TLD zone files, processed weekly on a Linux VM that a Logic App boots and that deallocates itself when the .NET 8 job is done, so idle cost stays close to zero.
6 min read · Azure · .NET · Cloud Cost · DevOps
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Working notes from 2021–2022: AWS, Azure and Power Automate, kept for reference.
- Feb 19, 2022
Connecting to Azure SQL over a point-to-site VPN
Working notes on a point-to-site VPN into an Azure virtual network: self-signed certificates in PowerShell, a private endpoint for Azure SQL, and connecting from SSMS.
1 min read · Azure · DevOps
- Feb 19, 2022
GitLab CI/CD to Azure App Service for a .NET Framework app
A GitLab CI/CD pipeline that builds a .NET Framework web app and WebJob on Windows runners and deploys to staging, DR and production App Services with Web Deploy.
1 min read · DevOps · Azure · .NET
- Jun 5, 2021
Hands-on: an automated CI/CD pipeline for .NET Core Lambda on AWS
Working notes on applying the AWS DevOps blog's automated CI/CD pipeline for .NET Core Lambda functions to my own project, including a CodeCommit credential issue on Windows.
1 min read · AWS · DevOps