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Background
This PR enables support for the secure socks proxy, which is a new feature in Grafana 10. The feature allows datasource connections to be proxied through a socks5 proxy with TLS. This enables Grafana users to connect to datasources that live in different networks than where Grafana is running when they cannot open up ports to the public internet.
Implementation notes
github.com/grafana/grafana-plugin-sdk-go v0.163.0
and underlying dependencies.github.com/grafana/grafana-plugin-sdk-go/backend/httpclient
, there are no more changes needed in the backend, the config is read and loaded in that library.Fixes #1653
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