opencensus-ext-azure doesn't support protobuf > 3.20

[urucoder]

Describe your environment.

Python: 3.9.x Packages: opencensus==0.11.0 opencensus-context==0.1.3 opencensus-ext-azure==1.1.7 protobuf==4.21.9

Steps to reproduce. Create an environment with the packages defined above and try the following import from opencensus.ext.azure.trace_exporter import AzureExporter

What is the expected behavior? AzureExporter is imported successfully

What is the actual behavior? It crashes with the following error

Exception has occurred: TypeError (note: full exception trace is shown but execution is paused at: _run_module_as_main) Descriptors cannot not be created directly. If this call came from a _pb2.py file, your generated code is out of date and must be regenerated with protoc >= 3.19.0. If you cannot immediately regenerate your protos, some other possible workarounds are:

1. Downgrade the protobuf package to 3.20.x or lower.
2. Set PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=python (but this will use pure-Python parsing and will be much slower).

[lzchen]

This does not seem an issue with the opencensus-ext-azure package specifically. The opencensus package has a dependency on google-api-core, which in turn takes a dependency on a version of protobuf. I've tested the versions of protobuf and it looks like protobuf v4.x will break opencensus. We should probably pin protobuf in opencensus instead. @aabmass thoughts?