Creating infrastructure with Terraform locally

In this video, we’ll utilize Terraform to deploy AWS resources locally through LocalStack. These resources include DynamoDB tables, API Gateway, and VPC. We’ll use tflocal, a wrapper CLI that serves as a wrapper on the terraform CLI to execute Terraform commands against LocalStack.

Here’s a breakdown of the steps we’ll take:

• We’ll create a main.tf file and then apply the Terraform configuration on LocalStack.
• We’ll demonstrate various configuration options for setting up the infrastructure for our application.
• After applying Terraform, we’ll inspect the output, showcasing deployed resources such as API URLs, ECS cluster name, and VPC ID.
• Towards the end, we’ll verify the deployment and resource creation using the Resource Browser.

Further reading:

• What is tflocal?
• Tutorial: Host a static website locally using Simple Storage Service (S3) and Terraform with LocalStack
• Custom Service Endpoint configuration for LocalStack

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Creating infra with CloudFormation locally

In this video, we'll explore how you can use AWS CloudFormation with LocalStack. AWS CloudFormation allows you to declaratively define your AWS cloud architecture, specifying resources like S3 Buckets and Lambda Functions. To deploy using AWS CloudFormation, we'll use awslocal, a wrapper CLI around the AWS command line interface.

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