Understanding LocalStack

Learn how LocalStack emulates services and runs your serverless applications.

The documents in this section are dedicated to the internals, the configuration options, and the limitations of LocalStack.
The following figure shows an overview of the covered topics:

Configuration

Environment variables which affect LocalStack.

External Service Port Range

The range of ports used by services not directly provided by LocalStack

Filesystem Layout

Overview of runtime directory structure

Lambda Executor Modes

Overview of the different Lambda execution modes

Persistence Mechanism

How the LocalStack persistence mechanism works and how you can configure it.

ARM64 Support

Describes the support for the ARM64 CPU architecture in LocalStack.

Podman

Describes how to run LocalStack inside Podman.

LocalStack Limitations

Known limitations of LocalStack and its services

LocalStack Coverage

Overview of the implemented AWS APIs in LocalStack

Last modified October 8, 2021: rename Understanding LocalStack to localstack (b1eb836e)