Running Terraform Locally Using LocalStack

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) is a popular practice in DevOps that allows you to manage and automate infrastructure resources using code. Terraform is a leading IaC tool that is used by many organizations to manage their infrastructure resources across multiple cloud providers, including AWS. Testing your infrastructure code is crucial to ensuring that it works correctly and meets your requirements. However, testing infrastructure code can be challenging, especially if you are working with cloud resources that can incur costs and are dependent on internet connectivity.

In this session, we will explore how to use LocalStack with Terraform to test infrastructure code locally without incurring cloud costs or relying on an internet connection. Localstack is a tool that simulates the behavior of various AWS services locally on your computer, allowing you to develop and test your infrastructure code in an isolated environment.

During the session, we will cover the following topics:

An overview of Localstack and Terraform and how they can be used together to test infrastructure code locally.
Setting up LocalStack and Terraform on your local machine.
Writing Terraform code to create AWS resources and specifying the endpoint of Localstack instead of the actual AWS service endpoints.
Setting environment variables to tell Terraform to use Localstack instead of the real AWS services.
Running Terraform commands to apply, plan, and destroy infrastructure resources in LocalStack
Verifying that the infrastructure resources were deployed correctly in LocalStack
By the end of this session, you will have a better understanding of how to use LocalStack with Terraform to test your infrastructure code locally, allowing you to catch issues early and speed up your development cycle. You will also be able to apply these concepts to your own infrastructure code and testing workflows, helping you to improve the quality and reliability of your infrastructure resources.

Speaker: Adefemi Micheal
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