Is it possible to have a local azure environment?

I am new to azure so maybe there's a better way to do what I am trying to achieve.

I am basically trying to write integration test for a Web Api and I hit a wall as soon as I started using Azure sdk.

Here's how I was doing my integration: 1- I would fire up iis express and launch my web api 2- Issue requests against the api and compare results

so far so good.

But now, I want to use redis cache and this requires the azure environment.

Can this be done or am I approaching it the wrong way?

Thanks for any information.