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I've been running a scraper against the output of the "aws --help" CLI commands for a few months, to try and get a better feel for how often AWS changes - I call this "help scraping". The answer is it changes a LOT - there are updates to their APIs every single day.
Here's the commit log of changes I've tracked so far: https://github.com/simonw/help-scraper/commits/main/aws
Does LocalStack allow me to actually mimic my entire infrastructure and services on AWS? Say I have a VPC with public/private subnets, a NATGW, ECS on EC2, ELBs, etc — can I mimic this infra in its entirety on LocalStack?
I used LocalStack quite a bit at my last gig. It sure is nice to be able to use Terraform to spin up the same infra on my laptop, and test against that. It reduced the number of developer sandboxes we needed to have in AWS. I sure do wish AWS would go the GCP route and offer an emulator. I prefer to use that in E2E automation that's run in CI/CD pipelines.
What's the difference between what localstack provides and an emulator as you describe? Just support, or do they do different things?
I used LocalStack quite a bit at my last gig. It sure is nice to be able to use Terraform to spin up the same infra on my laptop, and test against that. It reduced the number of developer sandboxes we needed to have in AWS. I sure do wish AWS would go the GCP route and offer an emulator. I prefer to use that in E2E automation that's run in CI/CD pipelines.
any chance you can point to a good overview on how to do this? im new to terraform and i'm trying to figure out the best way to co about local/sandbox testing
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What's the difference between what localstack provides and an emulator as you describe? Just support, or do they do different things?
LocalStack is a third party that has a free and paid version of their product. I'm certainly NOT against anyone trying to make a living off of their own hard work but, Google provides their emulator free of charge. Supposedly this can drive greater adoption.
I used LocalStack quite a bit at my last gig. It sure is nice to be able to use Terraform to spin up the same infra on my laptop, and test against that. It reduced the number of developer sandboxes we needed to have in AWS. I sure do wish AWS would go the GCP route and offer an emulator. I prefer to use that in E2E automation that's run in CI/CD pipelines.
This is really impressive. I've been running a scraper against the output of the "aws --help" CLI commands for a few months, to try and get a better feel for how often AWS changes - I call this "help scraping". The answer is it changes a LOT - there are updates to their APIs every single day. Here's the commit log of changes I've tracked so far: https://github.com/simonw/help-scraper/commits/main/aws
* https://github.com/z0ph/MAMIP#readme
* https://github.com/SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes#readme
I thought there was a backing github repo for AwsApiChanges.info but I was unable to readily locate it
It's not a _lot_ of work, and making your dev/prod differences more explicit can make debugging much easier.