Teamsfx bot deployment

Question

Hello,

I developped a notification bot for teams using @microsoft/teamsfx package, Azure AD and the dev bot framework following that guide: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/sbs-gs-notificationbot?tabs=vscode.

When starting the node app locally and tunneling localhost with ngrok the bot works perfectly fine (I set the messaging endpoint of the bot on the bot framework https://dev.botframework.com/bots). But when changing the messaging endpoint to my company deployed API, the bot no longer sends a request to the messaging endpoint. To clarify, when trying to use the bot with my company's node app in prod environment the bot no longer works. I believe it's because the bot is not officially deployed on Azure and is still in a development status, though I might be wrong.

I tried migrating it using the bot framework but it is asking for an Azure subscription even though the Azure Bot Service is free for standard channels (which is what I believe I'm using) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bot-services/.

What should I do ?

Answer 1

Hello @Louis Deleplace

Thanks for your response, you can start from this page - [https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Click "Start free" and follow guided steps.

Please be aware - Azure bot service is always free service with standard channel, if you want to link it to other services, like some third party services or other Azure service, please always check the pricing page - [https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/

You can also estimate the price if you want to use other service to avoid surprising billing -

[https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?service=bot-services

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Yutong

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