Azure API Management

[justinyoo]

.NET Aspire issue link

dotnet/aspire#2235

Overview

The use of Azure API Management (APIM) is common in many integration scenarios. However, it's not yet natively supported by .NET Aspire. It would be great that we support this APIM integration.

Usage example

In the AppHost project:

var apim = builder.AddAzureApiManagement(
    "myapim",
    new AzureApiManagementOptions()
    {
        BaseUrl = "https://my-apim.azure-api.net/api",
        SubscriptionKey = "{{this-is-subscription-key}}"
    });

builder.AddProject<Projects.My_Aspire_WebApp>("webapp")
       .WithReference(apim);

In the consuming project:

builder.Services.AddHttpClient<IApimClient, ApimClient>(client
    => client.BaseAddress = new Uri("https+http://apim"));

Additional context

• I'd like to get myself assigned. But before that, I'd also like to discuss its feasibility first.
• I'm not sure how OpenTelemetry related data is propagated from one app to the other through APIM.

Help us help you

Yes, I'd like to be assigned to work on this item

[aaronpowell]

I'm not entirely sure that this is a good candidate, as I think there's a bunch of complexity that we need to think about from the perspective of how you would configure APIM using the Aspire model - you want to define the resources that it's going to sit in front of, define policies, etc. And then there's the question of what does this look like for local development, especially if we wanted to go down the route of having some way to provide the resources to the APIM that you want to have it sit in front of.

I see there was a previously raised issue on the dotnet/aspire repo that was closed a while ago. With the work that's gone into Aspire 9 and the new CDK from the Azure team, it's probably worth restarting the discussion on whether this would be a candidate for inclusion in the Aspire core repo.

[aaronpowell]

Going to close this as it's not something we'll build at the moment.