Is it possible to create a MS Teams App incl. messaging extension without an Azure Bot?

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I am building a Teams App which uses a search based messaging extension. As far as I understand, I need a bot for this, because the bot is basically posting the adaptive card created from the data on my external webapp to the chat.

Is it possible to create or host a bot somewhere else than in Azure? I do not have an Azure subscription. If so, how would I go about using a different Bot for my Teams App?

Thanks for helping in advance!

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Teams bots rely on the underlying Microsoft Bot Framework - the same engine for building any kinds of bots in the Microsoft ecosystem (e.g. slack or web or facebook bots). The only way to register those bots in MS Bot Framework is, yes, via the Azure portal. However, you don't need to HOST your bot in Azure - the physical web endpoint can live anywhere that's publicly httpS addressable (e.g. AWS), as long as the registration for the bot is in Azure.

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  • yes, you can create the Bot framework locally and run it using Visual Studio.
  • To debug Bot locally in teams you need to use a tunneling service like ngrok.
  • To install ngrok run the following command.

    ngrok http <port> -host-header=localhost:<port>

  • Here is document related Bot framework running locally and the installation steps for ngrok.
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