--- title: LocalStack for Azure Enters Public Preview with Security... description: LocalStack has opened a free public preview of its Azure emulator, with general availability targeted for early 2027. It runs Azure services locally and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/localstack-for-azure-enters-public-preview-with-security-settings-stored-but-not-enforced-suhpubbag twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: LocalStack for Azure Enters Public Preview with Security Settings Stored but Not Enforced | daily.dev og:description: LocalStack has opened a free public preview of its Azure emulator, with general availability targeted for early 2027. It runs Azure services locally and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/localstack-for-azure-enters-public-preview-with-security-settings-stored-but-not-enforced-suhpubbag og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SuHPUbbAG.png og:image:alt: LocalStack for Azure Enters Public Preview with Security Settings Stored but Not Enforced og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # LocalStack for Azure Enters Public Preview with Security Settings Stored but Not Enforced **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary LocalStack has opened a free public preview of its Azure emulator, with general availability targeted for early 2027. It runs Azure services locally and accepts existing ARM, Bicep, Terraform, Pulumi, and Azure CLI workflows without rewrites. Coverage varies widely: Storage Accounts implements 13 of 81 operations, App Service 143 of 616, and Virtual Network 10 of 29. Many settings are stored but not enforced, including App Service access restrictions, httpsOnly, VNet integration, and Virtual Network security rules; bearer tokens are accepted without RBAC checks unless explicitly enabled. On Apple Silicon, code deployments can fail because the Oryx build image is amd64-only. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Does LocalStack's Azure emulator enforce security settings like access restrictions and httpsOnly? No, many security settings are stored and returned by the API but not actually enforced in the public preview. On App Service, keys, access restrictions, authentication settings, and publishing credential policies are not enforced, and httpsOnly is not enforced so the emulator still serves HTTP even when that setting is configured. _Teams piloting local Azure testing can track emulator fidelity gaps like this on daily.dev before trusting a security config._ ### How much of the Azure API does LocalStack's Azure emulator actually implement? Coverage varies heavily by service. Storage Accounts implements 13 of 81 operations, App Service implements 143 of 616, and Virtual Network implements 10 of 29, according to LocalStack's own documentation for the public preview covering 24 resource providers. _Developers evaluating local Azure emulation tools can follow coverage updates like this on daily.dev before committing._ ### Why would a code deployment fail when testing an Azure web app locally on Apple Silicon with LocalStack? The Oryx build image used for code deployments ships for amd64 only, so builds fail on Apple Silicon and the app starts without its dependencies. This happens even though a web app created on a Windows plan runs its code in the Linux runtime regardless of the configured plan. _Apple Silicon developers debugging local Azure builds can find fixes for platform mismatches like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Run Untrusted AI Agent Code Safely with Azure Container Apps Sandboxes](https://daily.dev/posts/run-untrusted-ai-agent-code-safely-with-azure-container-apps-sandboxes-og96gnzce) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [LocalStack Adds Ability to Visually Debug AWS Apps on Local Machines](https://daily.dev/posts/localstack-adds-ability-to-visually-debug-aws-apps-on-local-machines-mq9tavjvq) · DevOps.com · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#azure](https://daily.dev/tags/azure), [#iac](https://daily.dev/tags/iac) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/localstack-for-azure-enters-public-preview-with-security-settings-stored-but-not-enforced-suhpubbag) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"LocalStack for Azure Enters Public Preview with Security Settings Stored but Not Enforced","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/localstack-for-azure-enters-public-preview-with-security-settings-stored-but-not-enforced-suhpubbag","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/localstack-for-azure-enters-public-preview-with-security-settings-stored-but-not-enforced-suhpubbag"},"datePublished":"2026-10-31T08:05:13.376Z","dateModified":"2026-10-31T08:05:40.964Z","description":"LocalStack has opened a free public preview of its Azure emulator, with general availability targeted for early 2027. 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