local-development-story.md

Local Development Story

To save some money and simplify development and testing we can use some software to emulate some Azure Services;

Azure Cosmos DB Emulator

Documentation: Install and use the Azure Cosmos DB Emulator for local development and testing

Notes:

• We can set up a local instance of the emulator or use dockerized instance;
• Since this is an emulator no additional changes are required for code and we just need to replace the connection string in appsettings.json file;

Azurite - Azure Blob Store Emulator

Documentation: Use the Azurite emulator for local Azure Storage development

Notes:

• We can set up a local instance of the emulator or use dockerized instance;
• Since this is an emulator no additional changes are required for code and we just need to replace the connection string in appsettings.json file;
• To explore what inside of emulated Blob Store we can use Azure Storage Explorer;