Terraform 1.6 introduced native Terraform tests, but running them against real cloud resources leads to long deployment times and unnecessary costs. With LocalStack's Terraform integration (tflocal), you can validate configurations locally while closely emulating real cloud behaviour. By combining Terraform tests with LocalStack, developers can run integration tests in CI/CD environments, test event-driven serverless workflows, and establish a rapid feedback loop for cloud development. In this presentation, Harsh Mishra provides a hands-on demo of Terraform testing with LocalStack, exploring how to configure tests, validate infrastructure locally, and reduce costs and complexity while improving confidence in deployments.

Multi-account and multi-region compatibility enables users to manage and deploy resources across multiple AWS accounts and geographic regions. This functionality enhances the robustness of the deployments by offering improved fault tolerance, scalability, and regulatory compliance. By segregating resources into separate accounts and distributing them across various regions, users can minimize the impact of potential failures and optimize performance. In this session from LocalStack Community Meetup May '24, Sannya Singhal discussed how you could use LocalStack to emulate multi-account and multi-region environments locally for testing and development purposes, ensuring that applications were resilient and scalable before deployment to the cloud.

LocalStack's cloud emulator lets you run Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) clusters and tasks on your local computer. It's sometimes useful to mount code from the host filesystem directly into the ECS container. This helps quickly test changes without needing to rebuild and redeploy the ECS Task's Docker image each time. This video explains how to use code mounting with the ECS bind mounts feature.

We’re partnering with gdotv to simplify development with our Amazon Neptune cloud emulator component. You can now easily query, visualise and model your graph data either interactively or using the Gremlin querying language with G.V() - Gremlin IDE. With G.V(), you can considerably enhance your graph database development experience whilst gaining access to a powerful reporting and visualisation toolset for your production data. With LocalStack’s core cloud emulator, parity is ensured between a local Neptune instance and AWS’s own, meaning Gremlin queries in your development environment will behave identically on Amazon Neptune. In this video we demonstrate how to use G.V() with LocalStack Neptune.