Azure Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment Model - Public Preview Refresh

This past October, we announced the public preview of the Logic Apps hybrid deployment model that allows customers to run Logic Apps workloads on customer managed infrastructure.

Since this time, we have had the opportunity to chat with many customers across many industries and have received a great response to our offering.

Some of the drivers of this interest include customers looking to migrate from BizTalk Server and looking for an on-premises offering. Other customers, such as those in manufacturing, retail or mining settings, have requirements to co-locate their integration platform near key lines of business systems that avoid dependencies on public internet to process transactions.

The sweet spot of this customer interest has come from existing Logic Apps customers who have some specific use cases where they need to process transactions locally and thus truly taking advantage of hybrid hosting while being able to leverage the same skills, tools and monitoring experiences across their landscape. This aligns with our promise of this offering being a deployment model and providing customers with more options that allow them to meet their business needs.

Public Preview Refresh Updates:

.NET Framework Custom Code Support on Linux Containers For BizTalk customers who are looking to 'lift and shift' their data transformations, this capability enables those solutions to execute in Logic Apps Hybrid. This added capability now provides parity with what we currently offer in Logic Apps (Standard) in Azure.

Support for Running SAP Built-in Connector on Linux Containers: The SAP connector has dependencies on .NET Framework NCO dlls which are available from SAP marketplace. We’ve now added support for running the SAP built-in connector on Linux containers, which will enable enterprise customers to run SAP scenarios at edge locations with Hybrid Logic Apps.

Rabbit MQ Built-in Connector for On-Premises Queue Scenarios: One popular request that we have received from customers is the ability to connect to on-premises message brokers. While Azure Logic Apps currently supports some on-premises message brokers, customers were looking for additional options including Rabbit MQ.  In this release, we have included an In-App Rabbit MQ connector. Since the Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment model is Logic Apps Standard, this means that this connector will also be available in Logic Apps Standard that you run in the cloud soon.

Please see the following video for more information on the Rabbit MQ solution.

The Rabbit MQ connector is currently in public preview and currently works with non-durable queues. We are looking to add more capabilities to this connector and are actively seeking feedback from customers on what we should prioritize next. We would love to hear from you by submitting the following form: https://aka.ms/RabbitMQwithLAStandardSurvey

Performance Optimization: We’ve made several performance improvements to ensure that Hybrid Logic Apps run efficiently and effectively. We plan to share some benchmarks/baselines soon that highlight the expected throughput when using Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment model.

Next Steps

• Existing customers: When you make a change to an existing workflow or an app setting, it will force a new revision to be created. When that takes place, the latest container image will be pulled from the Azure Container Registry and will be instantiated in your runtime.
• New customers: Please follow our getting started guide on Microsoft Learn. When you follow these steps, you will automatically start with the latest runtime image which will include all these new capabilities.

General Availability

We anticipate promoting this offering to General Availability soon. We are now focused on publishing our performance benchmarks, documenting CI/CD processes and addressing customer feedback. So if you have any outstanding needs, please reach out.