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Bellerophon vs LocalStack: What are the differences?
Bellerophon: Generate AWS CloudFormation templates from existing AWS resources. Bellerophon will make AWS SDK calls to get information about the resources in your AWS environment. Once the resources are retrieved, you can add them to the CloudFormation template. You can view the template by going to File > Show Template. Once you are happy with the design of the template, you can choose File > Save Template; LocalStack: A fully functional local AWS cloud stack (by Atlassian). LocalStack provides an easy-to-use test/mocking framework for developing Cloud applications.
Bellerophon and LocalStack can be primarily classified as "AWS" tools.
Bellerophon and LocalStack are both open source tools. Bellerophon with 142 GitHub stars and 6 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than LocalStack with 66 GitHub stars and 22 GitHub forks.
Pros of Bellerophon
Pros of LocalStack
- Integration with Python/nosetests4
- Local/offline testing4
- No dependency on cloud4
- Available as Docker image3
- Continuous integration3
- The correct URL is https://github.com/localstack/locals3
- Integration with Java/JUnit3
- Increases dev speed3
- Easy to use3
- Cost effective testing3
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Cons of Bellerophon
Cons of LocalStack
- Doesn't work well on Windows2
- No proper admin panel/web UI1