az

Introduction

The Azure CLI tool (az) is a tool that allows you to manually create and mange Azure resources. This guide will show you how to use it to interact with LocalStack.

Getting started

This guide is designed for users who are new to LocalStack for Azure emulator and assumes basic knowledge of how the Azure CLI works. We will demonstrate how to create, show and delete an Azure resource group.

Install the packages

Run the following command to install the required packages:

$ pip install azlocal

You now have access to the following LocalStack tools:

The LocalStack variants are wrappers around the existing tools, so you keep the full functionality of the original tool - it will just redirect all commands to the running LocalStack Emulator.

Setup the az CLI

To make sure the az tool sends requests to the Azure Emulator REST API, run the following command:

$ azlocal start_interception

Create and manage the Resource Group

Run the following command to create a resource group in the Emulator:

$ az group create --name MyResourceGroup --location westeurope

To check the resource group details, run the following command:

$ az group show --name MyResourceGroup

To delete the resource group, run the following command:

$ az group delete --name MyResourceGroup --yes

Teardown

When you’re done using the Azure Emulator, you can run the following command:

$ azlocal stop_interception

The az CLI tool will now communicate with the Azure REST API on future invocations.

Conclusion

The above examples show a very small sample of what is possible, with only a subset of the available commands and arguments. The LocalStack Azure Emulator supports much more services and features - see our API Coverage page to get a better understand of what is supported.

If you encounter a situation where the Emulator does not behave the same as Azure does, please reach out to us! We aim to provide a 100% parity across the board, but we’re not there yet - so please let us know if we’ve missed anything.

Happy coding!