How to create EC2 instance on LocalStack with terraform? - amazon-web-services

Question

I am trying to run EC2 instance on LocalStack using Terraform.
After 50 minutes of trying to create the instance
I got this response from terraform apply:
Error: error getting EC2 Instance (i-cf4da152ddf3500e1) Credit
Specifications: SerializationError: failed to unmarshal error message
status code: 500, request id: caused by: UnmarshalError: failed to
unmarshal error message caused by: expected element type <Response>
but have <title>
on main.tf line 34, in resource "aws_instance" "example": 34:
resource "aws_instance" "example" {
For LocalStack and Terraform v0.12.18 I use this configuration:
provider "aws" {
access_key = "mock_access_key"
region = "us-east-1"
s3_force_path_style = true
secret_key = "mock_secret_key"
skip_credentials_validation = true
skip_metadata_api_check = true
skip_requesting_account_id = true
endpoints {
apigateway = "http://localhost:4567"
cloudformation = "http://localhost:4581"
cloudwatch = "http://localhost:4582"
dynamodb = "http://localhost:4569"
es = "http://localhost:4578"
firehose = "http://localhost:4573"
iam = "http://localhost:4593"
kinesis = "http://localhost:4568"
lambda = "http://localhost:4574"
route53 = "http://localhost:4580"
redshift = "http://localhost:4577"
s3 = "http://localhost:4572"
secretsmanager = "http://localhost:4584"
ses = "http://localhost:4579"
sns = "http://localhost:4575"
sqs = "http://localhost:4576"
ssm = "http://localhost:4583"
stepfunctions = "http://localhost:4585"
sts = "http://localhost:4592"
ec2 = "http://localhost:4597"
}
}
resource "aws_instance" "example" {
ami = "ami-0c55b159cbfafe1f0"
instance_type = "t2.micro"
}
When I run LocalStack with docker-compose up directly from newest github (https://github.com/localstack/localstack)
From logs I have seen that EC2 related endpoint was setup.
I appreciate any advice that would help me to run EC2 on LocalStack.

Answer 1

Working fine with below docker image of localstack.
docker run -it -p 4500-4600:4500-4600 -p 8080:8080 --expose 4572 localstack/localstack:0.11.1
resource "aws_instance" "web" {
ami = "ami-0d57c0143330e1fa7"
instance_type = "t2.micro"
tags = {
Name = "HelloWorld"
}
}
provider "aws" {
region = "us-east-1"
s3_force_path_style = true
skip_credentials_validation = true
skip_metadata_api_check = true
skip_requesting_account_id = true
endpoints {
apigateway = "http://localhost:4567"
cloudformation = "http://localhost:4581"
cloudwatch = "http://localhost:4582"
dynamodb = "http://localhost:4569"
es = "http://localhost:4578"
firehose = "http://localhost:4573"
iam = "http://localhost:4593"
kinesis = "http://localhost:4568"
lambda = "http://localhost:4574"
route53 = "http://localhost:4580"
redshift = "http://LOCALHOST:4577"
s3 = "http://localhost:4572"
secretsmanager = "http://localhost:4584"
ses = "http://localhost:4579"
sns = "http://localhost:4575"
sqs = "http://localhost:4576"
ssm = "http://localhost:4583"
stepfunctions = "http://localhost:4585"
sts = "http://localhost:4592"
ec2 = "http://localhost:4597"
}
}
terraform apply
aws_instance.web: Destroying... [id=i-099392def6b574255]
aws_instance.web: Still destroying... [id=i-099392def6b574255, 10s elapsed]
aws_instance.web: Destruction complete after 10s
aws_instance.web: Creating...
aws_instance.web: Still creating... [10s elapsed]
aws_instance.web: Creation complete after 12s [id=i-9c942d138970d44a4]
Apply complete! Resources: 1 added, 0 changed, 1 destroyed.
Note: Its a dummy instance so won't be available for ssh and all. however, suitable for testing of terraform apply/destroy use case on ec2.