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Re: Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run

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Post by tecleandor »

They still have linked their OpenCollective account, where they have raised $10K and still have a balance of $5K. [0]

It's not a lot in the great scheme of things, but, have they been using a platform that's seemingly built for communities and open source to bootstrap their business?

Because this is not a 'open core' situation. They just closed the repo and ran away. If they had that idea all along, I feel like it hasn't be very, let's say, ethical.

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  0: https://opencollective.com/localstack#category-ABOUT

Re: Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run

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Post by cyberax »

matt_callmann wrote: post #4

What are the alternatives? I primarily used it for S3 and SQS emulation.

For S3 emulation, I'm using rustfs. It's very compact and fast to run, and you can just start it with `docker run` inside tests if you don't want to set up a full integration test harness.

I used an SQS-on-top-of-Redis emulation before, but I can't recommended it now (no updates for 6 years).

Re: Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run

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Post by stanac »

garrettjoecox wrote: post #2

"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

So is local stack dead? Is this situation the lesser evil? Or is it not dead and we will see a villain rise?

Edit: I see now, they have commercial offerings: https://www.localstack.cloud/pricing

I am not sure if my corp will be willing to pay or tell us to find something else, but I use it everyday, our integration tests depend on local stack.

Re: Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run

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Post by bytK7 »

matt_callmann wrote: post #4

What are the alternatives? I primarily used it for S3 and SQS emulation.

I haven't used this yet, but there's also https://github.com/robotocore/robotocore. It came up on HN a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47420619.

Re: Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run

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Post by redwood »

iaaan wrote: post #6

I evangelized localstack at my company a while back, but as we integrated it deeper into our CI test runs we started running into more and more things they don't support, and it feels impossible to get any attention from their support/devs despite being paying customers. Their Cloud Pod and ephemeral instance features in particular feel pretty half-baked and not very useful at the moment. Fun tangent: it's pretty eas…

I too was excited about the idea originally but then started realizing that they will have an increasingly untenable service area to try and maintain and mimic and it was just never going to work out.

Re: Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run

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Post by zanecodes »

strickjb9 wrote: post #18
matt_callmann wrote: post #4

What are the alternatives? I primarily used it for S3 and SQS emulation.

MinIO is a drop in replacement for S3. I plan on switching to this as soon as I can. For now, I just pinned localstack to 4.14.0

>MinIO

I have some bad news for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000041

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