“Test Fast. Test Local. Test AWS.”

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Asserts that AWS-native apps can run full integration tests locally without AWS bills by combining LocalStack (Docker), Terraform pointed at LocalStack endpoints, and TestContainers to spin up and tear down resources per test; uses Spock on the JVM to orchestrate tests, writes a terraform provider file at test runtime, and can use a Gradle terraform plugin so no local terraform install is required. Supports S3, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB and reduces cloud validation to final checks only.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:55Local Stack
3. 1:35Running Local Stack
4. 2:38Terraform
5. 3:11Terraform Local Stack
6. 4:31Test Containers
7. 5:20Test Framework
8. 5:57Test Container
9. 6:35Test

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