Feature Request: Hybrid Connection Manager support

[johnnyreilly]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Our organisation (Investec) is heavily invested in Azure. We use it extensively and are migrating more and more applications to it. We're big users of Azure Functions and Static Web Apps. We're also very interested in the possibilities of Azure Container Apps. However, we have a problem.

Like many organisations, we have resources that we need to access that reside on premise in some way. We need to be able to access these in order to build our systems. With Azure Functions / App Service etc, we've been able to achieve this through use of Hybrid Connection Managers. As an organisation, we've intentionally avoided using VNets to solve this problem so far to minimise security risk, and always used HCMs to achieve this.

Azure Container Apps does not support HCMs. This causes us issues when we hope to build solutions with Azure Container Apps.

Describe the solution you'd like.

We'd like a simple way to get on premise without "stretching our network" / using VNets. We want it to be secure, we want it to be easy. Obviously that's a big ask!

HCMs support for ACAs would seem to be a way to achieve this. Another alternative might be some kind of Dapr provider which allows us to go on premise.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

VNets, but as we say, there is a security concern there.

Additional context.

N/A.

This was discussed with @anthonychu and @greenie-msft in a call and we're raising this for visibility.

[andrekiba]

@SophCarp and @anthonychu any news on this? Thanks! It would be really useful!

[jayrlsw]

I would love an update on this.