Overview

LocalStack provides a number of configuration options and supporting tools that help you set up and manage your local cloud environment.

It brings together the configuration options that control LocalStack’s behavior, networking setup for reaching your services, the LocalStack Web App, the LocalStack SDKs for programmatic access, and the extensions mechanism for adding new functionality.

You will also find guides for several standalone tools: the DNS Server, Testing Utils, the LocalStack Docker Extension, and LocalSurf.

DNS Server

Use LocalStack as DNS server to resolve AWS queries to LocalStack.

LocalStack Docker Extension

Getting started with LocalStack Extension for Docker Desktop.

LocalSurf

Browser plugin to redirect AWS service calls to LocalStack.

Configuration Options

This section describes the configuration options available for LocalStack, and how to configure them to suit your needs.

Extensions

Use LocalStack Extensions to customize and extend your local development experience.

LocalStack SDKs

LocalStack offers various developer endpoints and SDKs provides a programmatic and easy way to interact with them.

Networking

This section describes the networking capabilities of LocalStack, and how to configure them to suit your needs.

LocalStack Web App

The LocalStack web app allows you to access additional features of LocalStack as well as to manage subscription and licenses, workspace members and permissions.

Testing Utils

Tools to simplify application testing on LocalStack.