title | description | ms.topic | ms.author | ms.date |
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Test locally by using the Azure Event Hubs emulator |
This article describes how to develop and test locally by using the Event Hubs emulator. |
how-to |
Saglodha |
05/05/2024 |
This article summarizes the steps to develop and test locally by using the Azure Event Hubs emulator.
- Docker desktop
- Minimum hardware requirements:
- 2 GB of RAM
- 5 GB of disk space
- Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) configuration (only for Windows):
Note
Before you continue with the steps in this article, make sure Docker Desktop is operational in the background.
To run the Event Hubs emulator, you can use an automated script or a Linux container:
Before you run an automated script, clone the emulator's GitHub installer repository locally.
Use the following steps to run the Event Hubs emulator locally on Windows.
- Open PowerShell and navigate to the directory where the common scripts folder is cloned using
cd
:cd <path to your common scripts folder> # Update this path
- Issue wsl command to open WSL at this directory.
wsl
- Run the setup script ./LaunchEmulator.sh Running the script brings up two containers: the Event Hubs emulator and Azurite (a dependency for the emulator).
./Launchemulator.sh
To run the Event Hubs emulator locally on Linux or macOS:
- Run the setup script LaunchEmulator.sh. Running the script brings up two containers: the Event Hubs emulator and Azurite (a dependency for the emulator).
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To start the emulator, supply a configuration for the entities that you want to use. Save the following JSON file locally as config.json:
{ "UserConfig": { "NamespaceConfig": [ { "Type": "EventHub", "Name": "emulatorNs1", "Entities": [ { "Name": "eh1", "PartitionCount": "2", "ConsumerGroups": [ { "Name": "cg1" } ] } ] } ], "LoggingConfig": { "Type": "File" } } }
-
To spin up containers for Event Hubs emulator, Save the following .yaml file as docker-compose.yaml.
name: microsoft-azure-eventhubs
services:
emulator:
container_name: "eventhubs-emulator"
image: "mcr.microsoft.com/azure-messaging/eventhubs-emulator:latest"
pull_policy: always
volumes:
- "${CONFIG_PATH}:/Eventhubs_Emulator/ConfigFiles/Config.json"
ports:
- "5672:5672"
- "9092:9092"
- "5300:5300"
environment:
BLOB_SERVER: azurite
METADATA_SERVER: azurite
ACCEPT_EULA: ${ACCEPT_EULA}
depends_on:
- azurite
networks:
eh-emulator:
aliases:
- "eventhubs-emulator"
azurite:
container_name: "azurite"
image: "mcr.microsoft.com/azure-storage/azurite:latest"
pull_policy: always
ports:
- "10000:10000"
- "10001:10001"
- "10002:10002"
networks:
eh-emulator:
aliases:
- "azurite"
networks:
eh-emulator:
-
Create an .env file to declare the environment variables for the Event Hubs emulator:
# Centralized environment variables store for docker-compose # 1. CONFIG_PATH: Path to config.json file CONFIG_PATH="<Replace with path to config.json file>" # 2. ACCEPT_EULA: Pass 'Y' to accept license terms. ACCEPT_EULA="N"
The argument
ACCEPT_EULA
confirms the Microsoft Software License Terms. Be sure to place the .env file in the same directory as the docker-compose.yaml file.[!IMPORTANT] When you're specifying file paths in Windows, use double backslashes (
\\
) instead of single backslashes (\
) to avoid confusion with escape characters. -
To run the emulator, execute the following command:
docker compose -f <PathToDockerComposeFile> up -d
After the steps are successful, you can find the containers running in Docker.
:::image type="content" source="./media/test-locally-with-event-hub-emulator/test-locally-with-event-hub-emulator.png" alt-text="Screenshot that shows the Event Hubs emulator running in a container.":::
By default, emulator uses config.json configuration file. You can configure entities (Event Hubs/ Kafka topics) by making changes to configuration file. To know more, visit make configuration changes
You can use the following connection string to connect to the Event Hubs emulator:
- When the emulator container and interacting application are running natively on local machine, use following connection string:
"Endpoint=sb://localhost;SharedAccessKeyName=RootManageSharedAccessKey;SharedAccessKey=SAS_KEY_VALUE;UseDevelopmentEmulator=true;"
- Applications (Containerized/Non-containerized) on the different machine and same local network can interact with Emulator using the IPv4 address of the machine. Use following connection string:
"Endpoint=sb://192.168.y.z;SharedAccessKeyName=RootManageSharedAccessKey;SharedAccessKey=SAS_KEY_VALUE;UseDevelopmentEmulator=true;"
- Application containers on the same bridge network can interact with Emulator using its alias or IP. Following connection string assumes the name of Emulator has default value that is"eventhubs-emulator":
"Endpoint=sb://eventhubs-emulator;SharedAccessKeyName=RootManageSharedAccessKey;SharedAccessKey=SAS_KEY_VALUE;UseDevelopmentEmulator=true;"
- Application containers on the different bridge network can interact with Emulator using the "host.docker.internal" as host. Use following connection string:
"Endpoint=sb://host.docker.internal;SharedAccessKeyName=RootManageSharedAccessKey;SharedAccessKey=SAS_KEY_VALUE;UseDevelopmentEmulator=true;"
While interacting with Kafka, ensure to set the Producer and consumer config as following:
{
BootstrapServers = //Value of bootstrap servers would depend on kind of connection string being used
SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocol.SaslPlaintext,
SaslMechanism = SaslMechanism.Plain,
SaslUsername = "$ConnectionString",
SaslPassword = //Value of connection string would depend on topology
};
Value of BootstrapServers and SaslPassword would depend on your setup topology. Refer to Interact with Emulator section for details.
Important
When using Kafka, only Producer and consumer APIs are compatible with Event Hubs emulator.
With the latest client SDK releases, you can interact with the emulator in various programming languages. For details, see Client SDKs.
To get started, refer to the Event Hubs emulator samples on GitHub.