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LocalStack

This page provides an introduction to LocalStack.

Overview​

LocalStack is complete, localized AWS environment where developers can build, test, profile and debug infrastructure and code ahead of deployment to the cloud.

Install LocalStack​

# pull localstack image
docker pull localstack/localstack

# or install using brew
brew install localstack/tap/localstack-cli

Start LocalStack​

# you can start localstack using localstack command 
localstack start -d

# or you can use docker command
docker run --rm -it -p 4566:4566 -p 4510-4559:4510-4559 localstack/localstack

Check LocalStack Status​

localstack status
# o/p: 
# ┌─────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
# │ Runtime version │ 3.8.2.dev86                                           │
# │ Docker image    │ tag: latest, id: 42ba78de23d4, 📆 2024-11-06T12:39:20 │
# │ Runtime status  │ ✔ running (name: "localstack-main", IP: 172.17.0.2)   │
# └─────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Create S3 Bucket in LocalStack​

aws --endpoint-url=http://localhost:4566 s3 mb s3://my-bucket
# o/p:
# make_bucket: my-bucket

List S3 Bucket in LocalStack​

aws --endpoint-url=http://localhost:4566 s3 ls
# o/p:
# 2024-10-01 20:45:08 my-bucket

Stop LocalStack​

localstack stop
# o/p:
# container stopped: localstack-main