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Join us next Monday, August 10th, at 9am EST for Quarkus Insights Ep. 256 as Hector Ventura joins us to discuss Floci. A fast, free, open-source AWS (and Azure) emulator built with Quarkus Native. https://lnkd.in/eGdxVTe #java #quarkus #quarkusinsights
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𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 "𝙲̲𝚛̲𝚎̲𝚊̲𝚝̲𝚎̲ ̲𝚊̲𝚗̲ ̲𝚊̲𝚌̲𝚌̲𝚘̲𝚞̲𝚗̲𝚝̲.̲" I wanted to see if there was another way. That question led me to discover 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗶, an open-source platform that emulates cloud services locally using Docker. Instead of provisioning real cloud resources, I could spin up local emulators for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud right on my laptop. As someone who enjoys learning by building, I thought... "𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡-𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙬?" So I built a Local Multi-Cloud Data Pipeline with an event-driven serverless architecture. Here's what it does: 📄 Upload a JSON file into a local Amazon S3 bucket ⚡ Automatically trigger an AWS Lambda function 🗄️ Store processed metadata in DynamoDB At the same time, I also ingested different datasets into three cloud storage services running locally: 📦 JSON → AWS S3 📊 CSV → Google Cloud Storage 📝 Log files → Azure Blob Storage Everything was orchestrated using Docker Compose and monitored through a unified Floci Dashboard. What made this project exciting wasn't just the final result. It was how quickly I could experiment. I could upload files, trigger events, break the pipeline, fix it, and start again within seconds—without waiting for deployments or worrying about cloud costs. It made concepts like event-driven architecture, serverless computing, and multi-cloud development much easier to understand because I could see every step happening locally. Some of the technologies I explored through this project: ☁️ AWS S3 ⚡ AWS Lambda 🗄️ DynamoDB ☁️ Azure Blob Storage ☁️ Google Cloud Storage 🐳 Docker & Docker Compose 🐍 Python (boto3) 🖥️ Floci One thing I enjoy about projects like this is that they turn documentation into hands-on experience. Reading about cloud services is helpful, but building something - even in a local environment - helps connect the dots in a completely different way. I've documented the complete setup, architecture, and implementation so anyone interested can recreate it. 🔗 GitHub Repository: https://lnkd.in/gnkHhD7b If you've used 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗶 or similar local cloud emulation tools, I'd love to hear about your experience or any ideas for extending this project. #DataEngineering #CloudComputing #AWS #Docker #Python #OpenSource #Serverless #CloudNative #LearningInPublic
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This is the kind of message that makes maintaining open source worth it A user wrote in: "Thanks for all the Floci work :) I'm super happy to see a properly built AWS/GCP/Azure container backend. And even happier since it's using Quarkus! rm -f minio localstack fake-gcs azurite" That last line is the wittiest way anyone has said "Floci is enough." I'm still laughing. Thank you to everyone in the Flock sending messages like this. This is why Floci stays light, fluffy, and always free. Any Cloud. Locally. floci.io
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Quarkus Insights #256: What is Floci? Hector Ventura joins us to discuss Floci. A fast, free, open-source AWS (and Azure) emulator built with Quarkus Native.
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Floci is on Quarkus Insights next week. Episode #256. If you've been fighting slow feedback loops testing against real cloud accounts, this one is for you. We'll talk architecture, Quarkus Native, and what MIT-forever means for the project. Also: we're looking for maintainers, especially on the Testcontainers integrations. Join the stream and say hi. Floci - Any Cloud. Locally. - floci.io
Quarkus Insights #256: What is Floci? Hector Ventura joins us to discuss Floci. A fast, free, open-source AWS (and Azure) emulator built with Quarkus Native.
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I ran AWS on my laptop yesterday, using a cloud emulator called floci. It lets me run apps that depend on AWS services locally. An open source alternative to LocalStack, with no auth token and no paid tier. I saw a post about it a few months ago and saved a note, because I knew I would need it at some point. Well, that time has come. I'm building my startup and needed an S3 bucket, an SQS queue and an RDS instance. I emulated all three locally, without setting anything up in the cloud. And I've only scratched the surface. This thing does a lot more than I need. It's not limited to AWS either. You can emulate Azure, GCP and OCI services too. Thanks Hector Ventura for building this.
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Opening EC2 ports in-flight with socat in Floci.
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I ran AWS on my laptop yesterday, using a cloud emulator called floci. It lets me run apps that depend on AWS services locally. An open source alternative to LocalStack, with no auth token and no paid tier. I saw a post about it a few months ago and saved a note, because I knew I would need it at some point. Well, that time has come. I'm building my startup and needed an S3 bucket, an SQS queue and an RDS instance. I emulated all three locally, without setting anything up in the cloud. And I've only scratched the surface. This thing does a lot more than I need. It's not limited to AWS either. You can emulate Azure, GCP and OCI services too. Thanks Hector Ventura for building this.
OCI was the last major cloud with no local emulator. Not anymore. Four down. Any Cloud. Locally. floci.io/oci
Floci - Any Cloud. Locally. speaks Oracle Cloud now. floci-oci is live, the fourth emulator in the family after AWS, Azure, and GCP. OCI is the only major cloud with no local emulator at all. No LocalStack equivalent, no dev container, nothing. Testing has always meant a real tenancy and real network round trips, even in CI. That gap is closed. One container on port 4599. Object Storage, Identity, Queue, Streaming, Vault and KMS, Secrets, and Functions. Point the OCI CLI, the SDKs, Terraform, or OpenTofu at it and keep the workflow you already have. Real engines, not mocks. KMS does actual AES-GCM, RSA, and ECDSA crypto. Functions runs your image through a real fnserver sidecar. The official oracle/oci Terraform provider works unmodified. The screenshot is the whole setup. Three commands, then oci os ns get just works. MIT. No feature gates, no telemetry, no account. Light, fluffy, and always free. Four clouds down. Links in the comments. #OCI #LocalEmulators #Floci
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Playing around with Floci-az Floci - Any Cloud. Locally. Been using basic Azure for a while, now playing around with what floci-az is capable of on my local lab running on a 3 year old Orange PI5 with 16GB. Next step will be learning AWS...Hector Ventura