LocalStack-Terraform Setup

This README provides instructions for setting up and using a LocalStack environment with Terraform to simulate AWS cloud resources locally.

Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following installed:

• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Terraform

Getting Started

Step 1: Start LocalStack

Use Docker Compose to launch LocalStack:

docker-compose up -d

This command starts LocalStack in detached mode.

Step 2: Terraform

Run the following command to initialize your Terraform workspace, which will download the necessary plugins, Apply your Terraform configuration using mock AWS credentials (since LocalStack doesn't validate them):

terraform init
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=fake AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=fake terraform apply

This sets the AWS access and secret keys to 'fake' and applies your Terraform configurations to the LocalStack environment.

The main.tf in this repository is configured to create an S3 bucket named devops-360-demo-localstack and upload the cat.png image to it. To view this image, you can access it via the following URL when running LocalStack:

http://devops-360-demo-localstack.s3.localhost.localstack.cloud:4566/cat.png

And you will see this: