Integrate Service Bus with Service Connector

This page shows supported authentication methods and clients, and shows sample code you can use to connect Azure Service Bus to other cloud services using Service Connector. You might still be able to connect to Service Bus in other programming languages without using Service Connector. This page also shows default environment variable names and values (or Spring Boot configuration) you get when you create service connections.

Supported compute services

Service Connector can be used to connect the following compute services to Azure Service Bus:

  • Azure App Service
  • Azure Container Apps
  • Azure Functions
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Spring Apps

Supported authentication types and client types

The table below shows which combinations of authentication methods and clients are supported for connecting your compute service to Azure Service Bus using Service Connector. A “Yes” indicates that the combination is supported, while a “No” indicates that it is not supported.

Client type System-assigned managed identity User-assigned managed identity Secret/connection string Service principal
.NET Yes Yes Yes Yes
Go Yes Yes Yes Yes
Java Yes Yes Yes Yes
Java - Spring Boot Yes Yes Yes Yes
Node.js Yes Yes Yes Yes
Python Yes Yes Yes Yes
None Yes Yes Yes Yes

This table indicates that all combinations of client types and authentication methods in the table are supported. All client types can use any of the authentication methods to connect to Azure Service Bus using Service Connector.

Default environment variable names or application properties

Use the connection details below to connect compute services to Service Bus. For each example below, replace the placeholder texts <Service-Bus-namespace>, <access-key-name>, <access-key-value> <client-ID>, <client-secret>, and <tenant-id> with your own Service Bus namespace, shared access key name, shared access key value, client ID, client secret and tenant ID. For more information about naming conventions, check the Service Connector internals article.

System-assigned managed identity

SpringBoot client type

Default environment variable name Description Sample value
spring.cloud.azure.servicebus.namespace Service Bus namespace <Service-Bus-namespace>.servicebus.windows.net

Other client types

Default environment variable name Description Sample value
AZURE_SERVICEBUS_FULLYQUALIFIEDNAMESPACE Service Bus namespace <Service-Bus-namespace>.servicebus.windows.net

Sample code

Refer to the steps and code below to connect to Service Bus using a system-assigned managed identity.

  1. Install dependencies.

    dotnet add package Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus
    dotnet add package Azure.Identity
    
  2. Authenticate using Azure.Identity and get the Service Bus namespace from the environment variables added by Service Connector. When using the code below, uncomment the part of the code snippet for the authentication type you want to use.

    using Azure.Identity;
    using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
    using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.AzureSERVICEBUS;
    
    string namespace = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SERVICEBUS_FULLYQUALIFIEDNAMESPACE");
    
    // Uncomment the following lines corresponding to the authentication type you want to use.
    // system-assigned managed identity
    // var credential = new DefaultAzureCredential();
    
    // user-assigned managed identity
    // var credential = new DefaultAzureCredential(
    //     new DefaultAzureCredentialOptions
    //     {
    //         ManagedIdentityClientId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SERVICEBUS_CLIENTID");
    //     });
    
    // service principal 
    // var tenantId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SERVICEBUS_TENANTID");
    // var clientId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SERVICEBUS_CLIENTID");
    // var clientSecret = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SERVICEBUS_CLIENTSECRET");
    // var credential = new ClientSecretCredential(tenantId, clientId, clientSecret);
    
    var client = new ServiceBusClient(namespace, credential);
    

User-assigned managed identity

SpringBoot client type

Default environment variable name Description Sample value
spring.cloud.azure.servicebus.namespace Service Bus namespace <Service-Bus-namespace>.servicebus.windows.net
spring.cloud.azure.client-id Your client ID <client-ID>

Other client types

Default environment variable name Description Sample value
AZURE_SERVICEBUS_FULLYQUALIFIEDNAMESPACE Service Bus namespace <Service-Bus-namespace>.servicebus.windows.net
AZURE_SERVICEBUS_CLIENTID Your client ID <client-ID>

Sample code

Refer to the steps and code below to connect to Service Bus using a user-assigned managed identity.

  1. Install dependencies.

    dotnet add package Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus
    dotnet add package Azure.Identity
    
  2. Authenticate using Azure.Identity and get the Service Bus namespace from the environment variables added by Service Connector. When using the code below, uncomment the part of the code snippet for the authentication type you want to use.

    using Azure.Identity;
    using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
    using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.AzureSERVICEBUS;
    
    string namespace = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SERVICEBUS_FULLYQUALIFIEDNAMESPACE");
    
    // Uncomment the following lines corresponding to the authentication type you want to use.
    // system-assigned managed identity
    // var credential = new DefaultAzureCredential();
    
    // user-assigned managed identity
    // var credential = new DefaultAzureCredential(
    //     new DefaultAzureCredentialOptions
    //     {
    //         ManagedIdentityClientId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SERVICEBUS_CLIENTID");
    //     });
    
    // service principal 
    // var tenantId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SERVICEBUS_TENANTID");
    // var clientId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SERVICEBUS_CLIENTID");
    // var clientSecret = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SERVICEBUS_CLIENTSECRET");
    // var credential = new ClientSecretCredential(tenantId, clientId, clientSecret);
    
    var client = new ServiceBusClient(namespace, credential);
    

Connection string

Warning

Microsoft recommends that you use the most secure authentication flow available. The authentication flow described in this procedure requires a very high degree of trust in the application, and carries risks that are not present in other flows. You should only use this flow when other more secure flows, such as managed identities, aren't viable.

SpringBoot client type

Default environment variable name Description Sample value
spring.cloud.azure.servicebus.connection-string Service Bus connection string Endpoint=sb://<Service-Bus-namespace>.servicebus.windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=<access-key-name>;SharedAccessKey=<access-key-value>

Other client types

Default environment variable name Description Sample value
AZURE_SERVICEBUS_CONNECTIONSTRING Service Bus connection string Endpoint=sb://<Service-Bus-namespace>.servicebus.windows.net/;SharedAccessKeyName=<access-key-name>;SharedAccessKey=<access-key-value>

Sample code

Refer to the steps and code below to connect to Service Bus using a connection string.

  1. Install dependencies.

    dotnet add package Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus
    
  2. Get the Service Bus connection string from the environment variables added by Service Connector.

    using Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus;
    
    var connectionString = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SERVICEBUS_CONNECTIONSTRING");
    var client = client = new ServiceBusClient(connectionString);
    

Service principal

SpringBoot client type

Default environment variable name Description Sample value
spring.cloud.azure.servicebus.namespace Service Bus namespace <Service-Bus-namespace>.servicebus.windows.net
spring.cloud.azure.client-id Your client ID <client-ID>
spring.cloud.azure.tenant-id Your client secret <client-secret>
spring.cloud.azure.client-secret Your tenant ID <tenant-id>

Other client types

Default environment variable name Description Sample value
AZURE_SERVICEBUS_FULLYQUALIFIEDNAMESPACE Service Bus namespace <Service-Bus-namespace>.servicebus.windows.net
AZURE_SERVICEBUS_CLIENTID Your client ID <client-ID>
AZURE_SERVICEBUS_CLIENTSECRET Your client secret <client-secret>
AZURE_SERVICEBUS_TENANTID Your tenant ID <tenant-id>

Sample code

Refer to the steps and code below to connect to Service Bus using a service principal.

  1. Install dependencies.

    dotnet add package Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus
    dotnet add package Azure.Identity
    
  2. Authenticate using Azure.Identity and get the Service Bus namespace from the environment variables added by Service Connector. When using the code below, uncomment the part of the code snippet for the authentication type you want to use.

    using Azure.Identity;
    using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
    using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.AzureSERVICEBUS;
    
    string namespace = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SERVICEBUS_FULLYQUALIFIEDNAMESPACE");
    
    // Uncomment the following lines corresponding to the authentication type you want to use.
    // system-assigned managed identity
    // var credential = new DefaultAzureCredential();
    
    // user-assigned managed identity
    // var credential = new DefaultAzureCredential(
    //     new DefaultAzureCredentialOptions
    //     {
    //         ManagedIdentityClientId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SERVICEBUS_CLIENTID");
    //     });
    
    // service principal 
    // var tenantId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SERVICEBUS_TENANTID");
    // var clientId = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SERVICEBUS_CLIENTID");
    // var clientSecret = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_SERVICEBUS_CLIENTSECRET");
    // var credential = new ClientSecretCredential(tenantId, clientId, clientSecret);
    
    var client = new ServiceBusClient(namespace, credential);
    

Next step

Follow the tutorial listed below to learn more about Service Connector.