seporaitis / elastic-unicorn-service

A proof-of-concept custom AWS-like service, exposed through a botocore client.

elastic-unicorn-service

A proof-of-concept custom AWS service, exposed through a botocore client. Read the blog post to understand more what this is.

Running tox does not require any AWS resources and should give an impression of this unusual idea. Continue reading if you'd like to run an example "Elastic Unicorn Service" like this.

Requirements & Setup

Requirements:

• Python 3.7
• AWS Account and awscli configuration/credentials for eu-west-1 region.

Note: If you cannot run in eu-west-1 - then git grep eu-west-1 and replace references.

Setup:

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
./deploy.sh  # follow the instructions in the output

deploy.sh is a simple script that should be run twice:

1. First time it creates the service stack.
2. Second time it updates it and prints out instructions how to update the two files in models directory.

Running

AWS_DATA_PATH should point to models directory, for everything to work.

For example, run - AWS_DATA_PATH=models/ python unicorn.py and see the service in action.