pytest-localstack

pytest-localstack is a plugin for pytest to create AWS integration tests via a Localstack Docker container.

Read The Docs

Requires:

• pytest >= 3.3.0
• Docker

Tested against Python >= 3.6.

Features

• Create pytest fixtures that start and stop a Localstack container.
• Temporarily patch botocore to redirect botocore/boto3 API calls to Localstack container.
• Plugin system to easily extend supports to other AWS client libraries such as aiobotocore.

Example

import boto3
import pytest_localstack

localstack = pytest_localstack.patch_fixture(
    services=["s3"],  # Limit to the AWS services you need.
    scope='module',  # Use the same Localstack container for all tests in this module.
    autouse=True,  # Automatically use this fixture in tests.
)

def test_s3_bucket_creation():
    s3 = boto3.resource('s3')  # Botocore/boto3 will be patched to use Localstack
    assert len(list(s3.buckets.all())) == 0
    bucket = s3.Bucket('foobar')
    bucket.create()
    assert len(list(s3.buckets.all())) == 1

Services

• apigateway
• cloudformation
• cloudwatch
• dynamodb
• dynamodbstreams
• ec2
• es
• firehose
• iam
• kinesis
• lambda
• logs
• redshift
• route53
• s3
• secretsmanager
• ses
• sns
• sqs
• ssm
• stepfunctions
• sts

Installation

$ pip install pytest-localstack

TODO

• More detailed docs.
• Break Docker container running out of LocalstackSession.
• Make botocore patching more comprehensible.
• Add common test resource fixture factories i.e. S3 buckets, SQS queues, SNS topics, etc.
• Test this works for non-localhost Docker containers.
• Add other client libraries such as aiobotocore.