support for this repo in Azure Government Cloud?

[delbert]

hello Everyone,

does anyone know if there is an existing fork of this repo that runs in Azure Government Cloud?

if not, does anyone know of any issues with the underlying services that would prevent me from doing such a port, as long as i change over the referenced endpoints and Client mechanisms, such as using:

SearchEndpointClient( endpoint=, credential=, audience=AzureAuthorityHosts.AZURE_GOVERNMENT)

thanks in advance for any help or pointers

[danieljurek]

~@delbert -- No fork necessary. Well-known sovereign clouds are already supported. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/azure-developer-cli/sovereign-clouds~

~Please give it a try and let us know if you have any feedback!~

I misread the context on this issue. Let me take a look at this specific template.

[delbert]

~@delbert -- No fork necessary. Well-known sovereign clouds are already supported. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/azure-developer-cli/sovereign-clouds~

~Please give it a try and let us know if you have any feedback!~

I misread the context on this issue. Let me take a look at this specific template.

thanks, @danieljurek! i am specifically looking at code in prepdocs.py, searchmanager.py, and strategy.py -- trying to ingest some sample docs with a Azure OpenAI, AI Search, blob storage, all in Gov Cloud

[pamelafox]

I am not aware of issues, but am not positive if it has been deployed to the Government Cloud. I did look into removing the hard-coded URLs in our Bicep files, but ran into an issue where not all government URLs were available programmatically: https://github.com/Azure/bicep/issues/12482 But that shouldn't affect you since you know you only want it working for Cloud. Please report back if you try it and discover any issues.

[delbert]

thanks, @pamelafox. curiouser and curiouser. you start pulling on a thread and its amazing what comes out of the tapestry at you.
we will definitely report back what we find. we have started by manually deploying the services via the portal in gov cloud (with private endpoints and policy and rbac restrictions in place) and then are running the prepdocs sequence and deploying the chat app. hoping for a chat-on-data solution relatively quickly. we are also trying the template as is, in a gov cloud sandbox subscription with no restrictions on public ip, policy, and rbac to see how that goes.

[pamelafox]

There's also the integrated vectorization approach that you can enable in this repository, versus running the local script. The search team says that Integrated Vectorization is compatible with government cloud, as long as you have an OpenAI in that cloud.

[delbert]

thanks! super-helpful, at this point. i'll give it a try

[mattgotteiner]

I am wondering if the hardcoded DNS zones (e.g. search.windows.net) would interfere with deploying to a different cloud

[delbert]

thanks! super-helpful, at this point. i'll give it a try

unfortunately, this limitation will disqualify Integrated Vectorization for almost any Gov Cloud implementation:

Shared private link connections to a vectorizer is not supported

[delbert]

I am wondering if the hardcoded DNS zones (e.g. search.windows.net) would interfere with deploying to a different cloud

yes it would. in my case, though, the customer uses their own DNS service, not Azure's

[pamelafox]

@delbert Were you ever able to make progress on this? We've had other developers inquire.