How Topaz emulates Microsoft Entra ID
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Authentication is the first thing every Azure SDK touches. Before your application can read a secret from Key Vault, publish a message to Service Bus, or query a storage account, it needs a valid token. That token comes from Microsoft Entra ID. Without a working Entra emulation layer, every other Azure service emulator is incomplete — your code would still call out to login.microsoftonline.com even in a fully local setup.
Topaz solves this by shipping a full Entra ID emulation layer out of the box.
