Summary
Is there any plan to support the $web container and static website hosting feature in Azurite, consistent with Azure Blob Storage?
Motivation & Use Case
In Azure Blob Storage, enabling static website hosting allows serving static content (HTML, CSS, JS, images) directly from a special container named $web, supporting features like default index document (index.html) and error document paths (404.html).
Currently, when developing and testing applications locally with Azurite:
- Emulating the
$web container and static website hosting behavior is not fully supported out-of-the-box compared to the real Azure environment.
- Local integration testing and development workflows for SPAs or static assets deployed to Azure Blob Storage require workarounds or connecting to a live Azure Storage account.
Proposed Feature / Solution
- Allow the creation, management, and API access of the special
$web container in Azurite Blob service.
- (Ideal) Support static website endpoint emulation to serve index and error documents locally over HTTP.
Additional Context
Having $web container support would greatly improve local development fidelity and CI/CD automated testing for frontend/serverless architectures targeting Azure Storage.
Summary
Is there any plan to support the
$webcontainer and static website hosting feature in Azurite, consistent with Azure Blob Storage?Motivation & Use Case
In Azure Blob Storage, enabling static website hosting allows serving static content (HTML, CSS, JS, images) directly from a special container named
$web, supporting features like default index document (index.html) and error document paths (404.html).Currently, when developing and testing applications locally with Azurite:
$webcontainer and static website hosting behavior is not fully supported out-of-the-box compared to the real Azure environment.Proposed Feature / Solution
$webcontainer in Azurite Blob service.Additional Context
Having
$webcontainer support would greatly improve local development fidelity and CI/CD automated testing for frontend/serverless architectures targeting Azure Storage.