Change Request: Provide cloud configuration with endpoint information for various clouds

[johanste]

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The Basics

Different clouds use different endpoints for services as well as for authentication. For customers who want to use non-public Azure, finding all the endpoints is cumbersome.

For an example of one way the problem is addressed, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/manage-clouds-azure-cli?toc=%2Fcli%2Fazure%2Ftoc.json&bc=%2Fcli%2Fazure%2Fbreadcrumb%2Ftoc.json&view=azure-cli-latest

• Which design guideline is affected?
  Configuration

• Which target languages are affected?
  All

• Describe the change:
  Provide a simple name/mechanism for a user to indicate that they want to work with a specific cloud and have client libraries automagically pick up the right endpoints by default.

Reasoning

Please provide any additional detail or reasoning for the request.

[johanste]

FYI, @schaabs

[jongio]

Related: Support for KnownAuthorities names: #1054

[jongio]

Related from Cloud Custodian: cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian#5166

[jongio]

Related in Python Mgmt plane docs: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/blob/master/doc/sphinx/multicloud.rst

[jongio]

Related, msrestazure-for-python has get_cloud_from_metadata_endpoint method: https://github.com/Azure/msrestazure-for-python/blob/master/msrestazure/azure_cloud.py#L229

[github-actions]

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