Appconfiguration: Connecting To Azure App Configuration From Different Tenant

[XRSHEERAN]

Hello Team,

I'm from internal team in commerce and we are trying to push app config through pipeline. Our pipeline resides on MSFT tenant while our App Config is on the other one due to production requirements. But we noticed that using App Configuration requires a service connection connecting the two tenants which I have problem building. So could you help me with whether is this kind of connection supported, and if it is how should I set it up? Thank you! My apologies if this is not the best place to ask and it would be good if you can point me to the right poc. BTW we can share more details if there is an internal office hour I can join if available, thanks again!

Best,
Sheeran

[Yiming-Jia]

Hello Sheeran,

I'd like this is a very common issue by using a crossing tenant service connection and Azure pipeline. Currently, we don't have a plan to support ConnectionString, as Service Connection is the behavior that keep consistency with other Azure pipeline tasks.

To config a Azure pipeline in different tenant, I think you need to know the tenant id that your App Config located. I tried the Service connection from the Azure pipeline portal by using Azure Resource Manager as the type, it asks me the tenant id, and service principal details. My understanding is that Service connection is not coupled with the pipeline you build, you can you different Service connection and task in each step.

Let me know if that answered your questions.

Thanks,
Yiming

[XRSHEERAN]

Hey Yiming, thank you for the instructions and it worked pretty well! I've created a service principle and use the manual resource manager set up instead of the automatic option listed here. So just my free bit of advice, it would be good to include manual setup as shown here in this document. Thanks again for the quick response and App Config is indeed handy to use. 👍