No need to do that. In an enterprise environment, ask for a VM, and they’ll provide it. You can install a reverse proxy that will do the job for you. However, with or without the VM or Raspberry Pi, you’ll need to puck a hole in the firewall for bi-directional communication. That’s where the problem is: by opening a firewall on enterprise systems data, you risk all the financial, suppliers, customers, and employees’ data to anyone over the internet. It’s too risky.
The idea is to create an agent using a protocol such as a websocket that opens a “bridge” between bubble and the enterprise service without needing a firewall.
A websocket agent that translates the API calls and delivers them to bubble using the standard 443 port is vital for anything on the enterprise. This way, we’d have a seamless integration with any enterprise service - whether hosted on the Cloud or on-premise, and Bubble would be not only a single player on point-to-point communication but transforming it into a hub for multiple systems in a single location, safe, secure, certified (SOC 2 compliant - which is a good start) HIPPA, and other certifications.
Bubble has a lot of potential, but first, it needs to mature in the enterprise and know-how enterprise security works to serve mission-critical applications. This is what Microsoft does with their PowerApps - and trust me: they charge way more than Bubble for a piece of crap of software. Boomi also has a low-code portion called Boomi Flow. It’s enterprise-grade software and also has its potential, but it is too expensive for mid-size companies. Large corporations use the service a lot, and it’s super interesting. Mendix is another sophisticated player in the enterprise game. I think Siemens bought it a few years ago and improved it a lot. I see some Microsoft approach with Bubble, and I’m worried about an acquisition - that would destroy Bubble.
Anyway, if you’re up to researching a websocket connector - or building a tunnel service, let’s talk. I didn’t dig deeper into this because I had to improvise with my solutions. Instead of opening the firewall, I adjusted the process to fetch data back on Bubble, using the API response with the data.
But I’d love to have something like this, especially for chat capabilities.
