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Cloudcloak

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Cloud Cloak is a browser extension for folks streaming or presenting while simultaneously showing one of the Microsoft Cloud Portals. It does its best to hide connection strings, email addresses, avatars, and anything that might show secure or personal information.

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You can consider this the next version/update to Azure Mask (shout out to Brian Clark for his pioneering work and blessing us to create this one).

Cloudcloak

System Managed Identity in Storage Queue PowerShell Azure Functions

· 4 min read

Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that enables you to run event-driven code without having to manage infrastructure. You can use Azure Functions to run small pieces of code in response to events, such as HTTP requests, messages in a queue, or changes in data in a storage account. In this article, I will show you how to use Azure Functions with a storage queue trigger using the System Managed Identity of the Function Application (instead of a Connection String).