[HN Gopher] Ministack (Replacement for LocalStack)
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Ministack (Replacement for LocalStack)
Author : kerblang
Score : 69 points
Date : 2026-03-31 20:48 UTC (2 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (ministack.org)
| giobox wrote:
| Ugh, I hadn't heard the news about the LocalStack licensing
| changes. I had some great results building AWS services for local
| dev as well as CI/CD and testing in GH actions with LocalStack in
| previous jobs.
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| I secretly always hoped Amazon would buy out LocalStack and make
| it the official free local development environment for AWS work,
| but I guess it probably would reduce revenues spent on AWS based
| dev and test environments. The compatibility with the AWS CLI was
| mostly excellent in my experiences.
| kay_o wrote:
| > Copyright (c) 2024 MiniStack Contributors
|
| Already lying or totally unreviewed AI slop ?
| cmertayak wrote:
| slop copy
| nnucera wrote:
| Hey yeah sorry I copied from an old repo I had... Thanks for
| the contribution <3
| https://github.com/Nahuel990/ministack/blob/master/CHANGELOG...
| mikecarlton wrote:
| Another alternative, earlier on HN:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47420619
| cmertayak wrote:
| I liked the transparency: "Built entirely with AI by Jack
| Danger | All prompts saved in prompts/"
| switchbak wrote:
| Thus far I've tried that (rejected), Floci (not great), and now
| looking at this.
|
| This one is 7 days old.
|
| I'm eager to have a localstack replacement, but these are a
| long way off from being mature enough. I suppose this is just
| the new state of software? Shiny website, big claims, AI coded,
| insufficiently tested.
| staticassertion wrote:
| I really don't see how any clone is going to manage to do what
| localstack couldn't - maintain compatibility with tons of AWS
| services while not getting paid for it. If this were viable, why
| would it not have worked before?
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| The only things I can think of are that perhaps LocalStack was
| just a mess of a codebase that couldn't maintain velocity or
| attract contributors, or it just failed to steward new
| contributors or some such thing.
| switchbak wrote:
| "LocalStack was just a mess of a codebase" - very true.
|
| I do think there's potential to semi-automatically create a
| compatible suite of services, but it'll require some very
| talented use of LLMs and some novel testing approaches. Not
| something I want to sign up for.
|
| I evaluated Floci, but that has the typical issues you'd
| expected with freshly minted vibe code.
| 4m1rk wrote:
| I suppose (among many other things) LLMs are changing this. We
| no longer need that many contributors when we can use AWS docs,
| intercept AWS API calls and give it to AI agent to mimic. Of
| course, contributors are still needed for maintaining tests and
| validations.
| yieldcrv wrote:
| and then the maintainer goes on a rant about accurate but
| agentically coded pull requests and doesn't merge it
| nnucera wrote:
| Hello! We won't have the broad coverage that Localstack has...
| we're not aiming to be the "next Localstack"... just want to
| keep the core services that were available for free in the LS
| community up to date. If you're looking for larger services
| like MWAA, sorry, but we won't be supporting them.... Most core
| AWS services don't receive many updates anyway (their APIs
| don't change drastically or frequently)
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