Show HN: Armite - a local Azure emulator with a real identity plane and RBAC

Category: devtools

Tags: azure, emulator, rbac, identity, local-development

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Armite is a local Azure emulator that focuses on providing a realistic identity and RBAC plane, allowing developers to test authorization logic offline. It mints and verifies tokens, evaluates role assignments on both management and data planes, and supports services like Key Vault and Storage with proper RBAC enforcement. This fills a gap in local Azure development by making authorization failures reproducible on a laptop or in CI.

Target audience: backend developers, devops engineers, cloud developers

Repository: https://github.com/ioflux-org/armite · Go · Apache-2.0 · 8 stars

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