ec2-docker-instances

LocalStack Demo: EC2 instances with Docker backend

This examples demos LocalStack EC2 and SSM functionalities when using the Docker backend.

Prerequisites

• LocalStack
• Docker
• make
• jq

Note: This demo involves the download of the Ubuntu Docker image weighing about 100MB

Installing

To install the dependencies:

make install

Running

Run LocalStack with following enviroment flags:

LOCALSTACK_API_KEY=... EC2_VM_MANAGER=docker DEBUG=1 localstack start

Run the demo:

make run

You will see various operations being performed in the logs, starting with

• the creation of a Docker-backed EC2 instance
• command being sent to this instance through SSM
• retrieval standard output of this command
• snapshoting the running instance into a new AMI
• termination of the instance

License

This code is available under the Apache 2.0 license.