AWS CDK & Localstack (Local Development)

A few benefits of this approach are

• You can run the lambda function locally
• Don’t impact your team by sharing the same env ( update on the same buckets, same records )
• Debug & Speed up your working
• Don’t need to worry about paying for AWS usage for stupid action 🥰

The cdk.json file tells the CDK Toolkit how to execute your app.

Useful commands

• yarn build compile typescript to js
• yarn lint check code style
• yarn destroy destroy the current stack
• yarn deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
• yarn bootstrap clean up env

Install & Setup LocalStack

1. Install Docker if you haven’t already. https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/
2. Install AWS CLI. While we won’t be working with “real” AWS we will be using it to communicate with our local docker containers. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-install.html

Install AWS CDK Local

Avoid the mistake when we use cdk command maybe it can impact to real environment This lib provides a thin wrapper script cdklocal for using the AWS CDK library against local APIs provided by LocalStack. Refer : https://github.com/localstack/aws-cdk-local

npm install -g aws-cdk-local aws-cdk

Or yarn

yarn global add aws-cdk-local aws-cdk

$ cdklocal --version 1.65.5

Start Localstack & Deploy our services

Step 1. init create a fake aws credentials - use for our localstack as below ( This is required for our localstack )

cat ~/.aws/credentials

[default]
aws_access_key_id = test
aws_secret_access_key = test
region = us-west-2     
output = json

Step 2. cd to localstack folder and run the command docker-compose up -d

Open browser check our service http://localhost:4566/health

{
  "services": {
    "dynamodbstreams": "running", 
    "firehose": "running", 
    "kinesis": "running", 
    "s3": "running", 
    "ses": "running", 
    "sns": "running", 
    "sqs": "running", 
    "dynamodb": "running"
  }, "features": {"persistence": "initialized", "initScripts": "initialized"}
}

Check your memcached was run successfully :check_mark:

# telnet the to port 11211
telnet localhost 11211

# Add a new key to memcache
set Customer_Id 0 900 5
# Type your value ( Enter - A message STORED will be displayed)
00-000-000
STORED
# Recheck by get your key stored 
get Customer_Id
00-000-000
# exit telnet
quit

Check your Redis was run successfully :check_mark:

Install Redis Client ( Add connection )

Windows

Download latest https://github.com/qishibo/AnotherRedisDesktopManager/releases package from https://github.com/qishibo/AnotherRedisDesktopManager/releases [or gitee in China], double click to install.

Or by winget: winget install qishibo.AnotherRedisDesktopManager

Mac

Download latest https://github.com/qishibo/AnotherRedisDesktopManager/releases package from release [or gitee in China], double click to install.

Or by brew: brew install --cask another-redis-desktop-manager

Step 3. Deploy our Application Stack

yarn deploy

IAM Statement Changes ...
┌───┬───────────────────────┬────────┬─────────────────┬───────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│   │ Resource              │ Effect │ Action          │ Principal                 │ Condition                                             │
├───┼───────────────────────┼────────┼─────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ + │ ${SampleAppQueue.Arn} │ Allow  │ sqs:SendMessage │ Service:sns.amazonaws.com │ "ArnEquals": {                                        │
│   │                       │        │                 │                           │   "aws:SourceArn": "${SampleAppTopic}"                │
│   │                       │        │                 │                           │ }                                                     │
└───┴───────────────────────┴────────┴─────────────────┴───────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
(NOTE: There may be security-related changes not in this list. See https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/1299)

Do you wish to deploy these changes (y/n)?

#### Type `y` and see our stack

ApplicationStack: deploying...
ApplicationStack: creating CloudFormation changeset...


✅  ApplicationStack

Stack ARN:
    arn:aws:cloudformation:us-west-2:000000000000:stack/ApplicationStack/e67d04e2

Step 4. Quick check our deployment S3 & Dynamo DB Tables

DynamoDB

aws --endpoint-url=http://localhost:4566 dynamodb list-tables

{
    "TableNames": [
        "test-development"
    ]
}

aws --endpoint-url=http://localhost:4566 dynamodb describe-table --table-name test-development

Useful Tools ( How to use it )

Tool	Description
S3 Viewer (MAC & Win) https://cyberduck.io/
DynamoDB Viewer (MAC & Win) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/workbench.settingup.html
SQS Sender https://github.com/kobee-tech-stack/sqs-viewer
Redis Viewer (MAC & Win) https://github.com/qishibo/AnotherRedisDesktopManager	...