December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
9h 43m
English
Content preview from Learn AWS Serverless Computing
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Step Functions Local
Before we wrap up, it's worth mentioning an alternative method for developing Step Functions workflows that isn't directly in AWS. It's possible to download a local version of Step Functions so that you can write code on your own machine. This artifact comes as a .jar file or a Docker image. All you have to do to start a container is pull the image from Docker Hub. Let's get started:
- Use the following command to download the image from Docker Hub. It is assumed you have Docker installed:
docker pull amazon/aws-stepfunctions-local
- Run it, publish the port mapping, and you'll be away:
docker run -p 8083:8083 amazon/aws-stepfunctions-local
There are actually a few environment variables you have to set inside the running ...