I wanted to test a container locally before pushing it to aws ecs.
I ran unit tests against a docker-compose stack including a dynamodb-local container using a Go (aws-sdk-go-v2) endpoint resolver with http://localhost:8000 as the url.
So I wanted to build and test container locally and realised I needed to attach it to the default network created by docker-compose. I struggled with this a bit so I build a stripped down trial. I created an endpoint resolver with a url of http://dynamo-local:8000 (named the container dynamo-local in d-c) and attached it to the default network within docker run.
Now that all works, I can perform the various table operations successfully, but one of the things that confuses me is that if I run aws cli:
aws --endpoint-url=http://localhost:8000 dynamodb list-tables
then the output shows no tables exist when there is definitely a table existing. I had assumed, naively, that as I can access port 8000 of the same container with different endpoints I should be able to access the same resources. Wrong.
Obviously a gap in my education. What am I missing ? I need to expand the trial to a proper test of the full app, so its important to me that I understand what is going on here.
Is there a way I can use the aws cli to access the table?
docker-compose file :
version: '3.5'
services:
localstack:
image: localstack/localstack:latest
container_name: localstack_test
ports:
- '4566:4566'
environment:
- SERVICES=s3,sns,sqs, lambda
- DEBUG=1
- DATA_DIR=
volumes:
- './.AWSServices:/tmp/AWSServices'
- '/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock'
nginx:
build:
context: .
dockerfile: Dockerfile
image: chanonry/urlfiles-nginx:latest
container_name: nginx
ports:
- '8080:80'
dynamodb:
image: amazon/dynamodb-local:1.13.6
container_name: dynamo-local
ports:
- '8000:8000'
networks:
default:
name: test-net
