azd

Introduction

The Azure Developer tool (azd) is a tool that allows you to provision 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 ARM/Bicep templates work in Azure. We will demonstrate how to create an Azure resource group using a Bicep template.

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.

Create a template

You can now use azdlocal to provision infrastructure in LocalStack, just like you would use azd to do this in Azure.

Create the following three files:

A configuration file called azure.yaml:

# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-dev/main/schemas/v1.0/azure.yaml.json

name: simple-template

A templated in infra/main.bicep:

targetScope = 'subscription'

@minLength(1)
@maxLength(64)
@description('Name of the the environment which is used to generate a short unique hash used in all resources.')
param name string

var tags = { 'azd-env-name': name }

resource resourceGroup 'Microsoft.Resources/resourceGroups@2021-04-01' = {
  name: '${name}-rg'
  location: 'westeurope'
  tags: tags
}

And a parameter-file in infra/main.parameters.json:

{
  "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentParameters.json#",
  "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
  "parameters": {
    "name": {
      "value": "${AZURE_ENV_NAME}"
    }
  }
}

Deploy the template

You can now deploy the template using azdlocal:

$ azdlocal up

The azd tool will ask a few questions about the environment name, subscription and location that you want your resources deployed in - just like you would see in Azure.

When the deployment has finished, you should see the following:

SUCCESS: Your up workflow to provision and deploy to Azure completed in 33 seconds.

You can now verify that the resource exist by using the azlocal tool:

azlocal login
azlocal group list

The template shown here is very basic, but this tool can of course be used with any other template. Happy deploying!