How to: Copy data from a Cosmos DB to another via PowerShell

A while back I had a case with a customer where they had a web app running in production without an up-to-date testing environment. A scenario that, unfortunately, is more common than we’d like to admit. We agreed that before I started working on the desired updates for the application I would first update the … More How to: Copy data from a Cosmos DB to another via PowerShell

Azure Data Factory and Virtual Networks – Choosing the right integration runtime

Azure Data Factory is Microsoft’s cloud service for creating integration pipelines between different data sources and orchestrating these pipelines to create fully automated integration solutions. Data Factory provides capabilities for simply copying data from one place to another, performing transformations on the data and even employing custom functionality from a wide array of different separate … More Azure Data Factory and Virtual Networks – Choosing the right integration runtime

How to: Using managed identities to access Cosmos DB data via RBAC and disabling authentication via keys

Historically, authenticating against Microsoft’s Cosmos DB service has only been possible in one of two ways: Either by using keys – long passwords that grant you either full read or read-write access to all data in the Cosmos DB account – or by building a custom user management solution that generates short-lived tokens to specific … More How to: Using managed identities to access Cosmos DB data via RBAC and disabling authentication via keys