Local development with Azure Services, specifically Azure AD

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Local development with Azure Services, specifically Azure AD

Wayne Gibson 36

Hi,
For local development of AWS services with Java services, for which I currently use https://github.com/localstack/localstack.

But I'm now looking for something similar for Azure AD, but as of yet haven't come across anything. Has anybody come across anything that could be used ?

Thanks

Gabriel Corrêa de Oliveira 16 Reputation points

2022-03-09T02:40:34.927+00:00

I would be keen to participate in an open source project to build something like Localstack for Azure; however, we need to remember that Localstack works well for developers because most of the SDKs (API clients) provided by AWS can be configured to point to a local endpoint instead of the real AWS endpoints. So, if we implemented something like Localstack for Azure, to what extent would we be able to configure the existing libraries provided by Microsoft? For instance, how would that work with Microsoft Graph clients in C# and other languages? What would be the SDKs and libraries that most people would want to use against something like this? I reckon making a list and assessing that would be the place to starts. Implementing mock versions of Azure APIs doesn't seem to be such a challenge.

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Gabriel Corrêa de Oliveira 16 Reputation points

2022-03-09T02:40:34.927+00:00

I would be keen to participate in an open source project to build something like Localstack for Azure; however, we need to remember that Localstack works well for developers because most of the SDKs (API clients) provided by AWS can be configured to point to a local endpoint instead of the real AWS endpoints. So, if we implemented something like Localstack for Azure, to what extent would we be able to configure the existing libraries provided by Microsoft? For instance, how would that work with Microsoft Graph clients in C# and other languages? What would be the SDKs and libraries that most people would want to use against something like this? I reckon making a list and assessing that would be the place to starts. Implementing mock versions of Azure APIs doesn't seem to be such a challenge.

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BhargaviAnnadevara-MSFT 5,466

@Wayne Gibson AFAIK, there isn't a LocalStack equivalent for Azure, but there are emulators/tools for specific Azure services that let you simulate the experience for local development and testing.

For example, there is Azure Storage Emulator for Azure Blob, Queue and Table services, and Azure Functions Core Tools for running and debugging Azure Functions locally. Here is a related thread that discusses similar ideas.

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Wayne Gibson 36 Reputation points

2021-10-13T09:15:38.42+00:00

@BhargaviAnnadevara-MSFT Thanks I had come across those before posting..

Its a shame.. There is no docker image that emulates it.. Will have to go with mockserver to mock the responses instead..
BhargaviAnnadevara-MSFT 5,466 Reputation points

2021-11-12T07:58:41.31+00:00
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