Hands-On Microservices with Rust

Bootstrapping a database for testing

Since AWS services are paid-for, it's better to bootstrap a local instance of the DynamoDB database for development or testing your application. There is an image of DynamoDB on Docker Hub. Run the instance with this command:

docker run -it --rm --name test-dynamodb -p 8000:8000 amazon/dynamodb-local

This command creates an instance of a database and forwards port 8000 of a container to a local port with the same number.

To work with this database instance, you need the AWS CLI tool. This can be installed using the instructions from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-install.html. On Linux, I use the following command:

pip install awscli --upgrade --user

This command doesn't need ...