Awesome LocalStack

A curated list of LocalStack integrations, tools, frameworks, and platforms.

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User Interface

• Web Application: Web application to interact with LocalStack services, manage resources, and use advanced features.
• Desktop Application: Desktop application to manage the container, view resources, and inspect logs.
• Docker Desktop Extension: Docker Desktop extension to manage the container and view logs.
• Commandeer: Desktop application to manage LocalStack and test your applications locally with an IDE experience.
• SQS Admin: Local Web Application to manage SQS queues.

Integrations

• arclocal: Run Architect Infrastructure as Code framework with LocalStack.
• awslocal: Run the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) with LocalStack.
• cdklocal: Run the AWS Cloud Development Kit Infrastructure as Code framework with LocalStack.
• chalice-local: Run the AWS Chalice serverless micro-framework with LocalStack.
• copilotlocal: Run the Copilot CLI to build AWS containerized applications with LocalStack.
• pulumilocal: Run the Pulumi Infrastructure as Code framework with LocalStack.
• samlocal: Run the Serverless Application Model Infrastructure as Code framework with LocalStack.
• serverless-localstack: Run the Serverless Infrastructure as Code framework with LocalStack.
• tflocal: Run the Terraform/OpenTofu Infrastructure as Code framework with LocalStack.

Frameworks

• Quarkus: Run LocalStack in your Quarkus application.
• Spring Cloud AWS: Run LocalStack in your Spring and Spring Boot applications.
• Testcontainers: Run LocalStack in your integration tests with Testcontainers.

Continuous Integration (CI) Systems

• CircleCI: Run LocalStack in your CircleCI workflows.
• GitHub Actions: Run LocalStack in your GitHub Actions workflows.

Docker images

• localstack/localstack: LocalStack Community Edition Docker image.
• localstack/localstack-pro: LocalStack Pro Docker image.
• localstack/localstack:s3-latest: LocalStack S3 Docker image.
• localstack/localstack-pro:latest-bigdata: LocalStack Pro with Big Data dependencies pre-installed.

Client libraries

• .NET Client: .NET client library for LocalStack.
• Go Client: Go client library for LocalStack.
• Python Client: Python client library for LocalStack.

Tools

• Cloudlens: k9s like CLI for analyzing and managing local AWS resources in LocalStack.
• diapretty: LocalStack diagnosis pretty printer to create diagnostics reports via the diagnostics endpoint.
• Former2: Generate infrastructure as code templates from existing resources in your locally running LocalStack instance.
• Leapp: Create LocalStack sessions in Leapp to connect to the cloud emulator.
• VS Code Extension: Visual Studio (VS) Code extension to deploy and manage Lambda functions on LocalStack.
• LocalSurf: Browser plugin to redirect AWS service calls to LocalStack.

Platforms

• Gitpod: Run LocalStack in Gitpod, a cloud-based IDE.
• Helm Charts: Helm charts to deploy LocalStack on Kubernetes.
• OpenShift: Run LocalStack in OpenShift, a Kubernetes distribution.

Extensions

• Authress: LocalStack extension to run the Authress server locally.
• Diagnosis Viewer: LocalStack extension to view the diagnosis report.
• httpbin: LocalStack extension to run the httpbin service.
• Mailhog: LocalStack extension to run the Mailhog service.
• Miniflare: LocalStack extension to run Miniflare, a serverless Cloudflare worker emulator.
• Stripe: LocalStack extension to run a stateful Stripe service mock.

Content

Tutorials

• "How To: Collaborative AWS local development with LocalStack’s Cloud Pods"
• "Deploying containers on Elastic Container Service (ECS) clusters using Elastic Container Registry (ECR) and AWS Fargate, with LocalStack"
• "Setting up Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Application Load Balancers using LocalStack, deployed via the Serverless framework"
• "Creating ephemeral application previews with LocalStack and GitHub Actions"
• "End-to-End Testing in Gitlab CI with Testcontainers and LocalStack: Understanding Runners and Docker in Docker"
• "Generate IAM Policies with LocalStack IAM Policy Stream"
• "Building a Java Notification app using AWS Java SDK, Simple Email Service (SES), and CloudFormation"
• "Deploying Lambda container image locally with Elastic Container Registry (ECR) using LocalStack"
• "Replicating cloud resources locally with LocalStack's AWS Replicator extension"
• "Creating reproducible machine learning applications using Cloud Pods for persistent state snapshots"
• "Chaos Engineering: Route53 Failover"
• "Host a static website locally using Simple Storage Service (S3) and Terraform with LocalStack"
• "Schema Evolution with Glue Schema Registry and Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) using LocalStack"
• "Chaos Engineering: Simulating Outages using Chaos API"
• "How To: Terraform Init Hooks for Automation & Production-Identical Test Environments"

Videos

"LocalStack 101"

• "Course Overview"
• "What is LocalStack"
• "Why LocalStack"
• "Getting started"
• "Web App and Resource Browser"
• "Full Project Demo"
• "Cloud Pods and Collaborative Work"

"Development & Deployment with LocalStack"

• "Course Overview"
• "Deploy a full fledged containerised application using LocalStack"
• "LocalStack Integrations - Infrastructure-as-Code and CI tools "
• "Creating infrastructure with Terraform locally"
• "Creating infra with CloudFormation locally"
• "Security Testing with IAM Policy Stream"
• "Setup GitHub Action workflow that starts up LocalStack and deploys the infrastructure"
• "Cloud pods - Team Collaboration"

Blog Posts

• "LocalStack: 30k stars, 40M pulls - and just getting started! 🚀"
• "Test Monitoring for LocalStack Apps"
• "Introducing LocalStack Cockpit"
• Hot Swapping Python Lambda Functions using LocalStack
• Develop and Test Real-time Data Pipelines with LocalStack
• LocalStack — 40K stars, 90M pulls and an engaged community!
• Debug Lambda functions from your IDE using LocalStack
• Monitor your failing Lambdas with CloudWatch and LocalStack
• Announcing LocalStack Discussion Pages
• Announcing LocalStack 1.0 General Availability!
• LocalStack and AWS Parity Explained
• Cloud Pods - Enabling state sharing and team collaboration for local cloud development
• Announcing LocalStack Extensions
• LocalStack x Gitpod - Run cloud applications with LocalStack and Gitpod
• Contribute to Open Source With LocalStack & Hacktoberfest
• Introducing LocalStack Docker Extension for Docker Desktop
• Announcing LocalStack 2.0 General Availability!
• KnowBe4 redefines their local cloud development & testing using LocalStack
• Develop your Cloudflare Workers + AWS apps locally with LocalStack & Miniflare
• Xiatech accelerates their development workflows on cloud using LocalStack!
• LocalStack has joined AWS Marketplace to streamline local cloud development & testing!
• OpenFABR leverages LocalStack for local Infrastructure as Code development and validation
• Introducing LocalStack Desktop Application for local cloud development & testing
• Join LocalStack at AWS re:Invent 2023
• Announcing LocalStack 3.0 General Availability!
• AWS re:Invent - Ten Things You Need to Know About LocalStack
• "One Click Local Development: Announcing Leapp's LocalStack Integration"
• Celebrating 50,000 GitHub Stars for LocalStack!
• Neurolytics enhances the efficiency and agility of its cloud-based development with LocalStack
• Add Authentication & Authorization to LocalStack with the Authress extension
• Mastering AWS Infrastructure Testing with LocalStack Cloud Pods - on localhost, CI and Testcontainers
• How we are making connecting to LocalStack easier
• Renaming the Pro Tier
• CartonCloud utilizes LocalStack for transforming development efficiency and agility!
• Exploring S3 Mocking Tools — A Comparative Analysis of S3Mock, MinIO, and LocalStack
• Ephemeral Environments with LocalStack & Shipyard
• Building LocalStack with LocalStack
• "Introducing LocalStack for Snowflake: The new emulator to build & test data pipelines locally"
• LocalStack Neptune development with G.V() — Gremlin IDE
• LocalStack Named to Redpoint InfraRed 100 List
• Developing cloud AI-powered apps with LocalStack and Ollama
• Simulating outages for local cloud apps with LocalStack Chaos API
• Take Your Local Testing to the Cloud with Ephemeral Instances
• Announcing the LocalStack 3.7 release!
• Accelerate infrastructure testing with LocalStack Cloud Pods & GitHub Actions