Localstack

In this first post of my new Local Dev Craft series, we will be setting up a local Kubernetes cluster using kind, KEDA, and LocalStack AWS in order to build a development/debugging environment that is similar to production. But first, let’s get familiar with the tools we are going to use here:

• Kubernetes: An open-source platform designed to automate deploying, scaling, and operating application containers.
• kind (Kubernetes in Docker): A tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes”.
• KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling): A set of components that extends Kubernetes to provide event-driven autoscaling for every container.
• LocalStack AWS: A fully functional local AWS cloud stack for testing and mocking AWS services locally.

Now that we know what we’re dealing with, let’s move on and create our local development environment that mimics our cloud setup. This setup will be a set of stateless jobs that will be spawned by KEDA events, exit after execution, and scale to zero.