I'm looking to test an application that interfaces with the AWS API. I don't want to actually have to build dummy infrastructure at this time to test it, so I just want varied sample data to do some validation. Is there any data source that exists?
Posted Jul 1, 2018, 9:26 PM UTC
Have used moto (https://github.com/spulec/moto) in additional to localstack to get a pretty comprehensive set of AWS resources for testing.
Thanks for that. I think the word I was looking for was mock. I did a search using that and a bunch of things come back.
I may be missing it, but this seems like a general public data repository. I'm looking for data specifically for the AWS API. For example, is there a data set when running ec2 describe-instances. I just want to be able to test my application against that type of data.
Most of the aws client libraries (CLI, php, node etc.) are essentially http client wrappers around the AWS api, so you will need to mock the request/response cycle for your chosen language. I’m not aware of any purely AWS mocked library, that being said you could setup something like Charles proxy/wickmock to inspect / playback http traffic. Personally I’ve always mocked at the aws client level
Take a look at localstack:
https://github.com/localstack/localstack/blob/master/README.md
Thanks - I'll have to check that out. Should give me at least a good start.