tflocal - Terraform with LocalStack

This package provides tflocal - a small wrapper script to run Terraform against LocalStack.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.x
• pip
• terraform

How it works

The script uses the Terraform Override mechanism and creates a temporary file localstack_providers_override.tf to configure the endpoints for the AWS provider section. The endpoints for all services are configured to point to the LocalStack API (http://localhost:4566 by default).

Installation

The tflocal command line interface can be installed via pip:

pip install terraform-local

Configurations

The following environment variables can be configured:

• TF_CMD: Terraform command to call (default: terraform)
• LOCALSTACK_HOSTNAME: host name of the target LocalStack instance
• EDGE_PORT: port number of the target LocalStack instance
• S3_HOSTNAME: special hostname to be used to connect to LocalStack S3 (default: s3.localhost.localstack.cloud)
• USE_EXEC: whether to use os.exec instead of subprocess.Popen (try using this in case of I/O issues)
• <SERVICE>_ENDPOINT: setting a custom service endpoint, e.g., COGNITO_IDP_ENDPOINT=http://example.com
• AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: the AWS region to use (default: us-east-1, or determined from local credentials if boto3 is installed)

Usage

The tflocal command has the same usage as the terraform command. For detailed usage, please refer to the man pages of terraform --help.

Change Log

• v0.6: Fix selection of default region
• v0.5: Make AWS region configurable, add region to provider config
• v0.4: Fix using use_s3_path_style for S3_HOSTNAME=localhost; exclude meteringmarketplace service endpoint
• v0.3: Fix support for -chdir=... to create providers file in target directory
• v0.2: Add ability to specify custom endpoints; pass INT signals to subprocess
• v0.1: Initial release

License

This software library is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE).