I just spilled my coffee; sorry for the trivial remark, but the name means 'pubic hairs' in Romanian. Apologies.. I thought it's better for you to know and ignore than not to (not quite a big population target for you, I imagine, anyway).

Both localstack and floci live in this weird spot where for a lot of my applications, all the cloud-vendor specific stuff is abstracted out anyway. So the only time I need to touch the cloud is for testing the abstractions and do end to end testing. The abstractions can be tested against real cloud APIs as it is generally cheap to do and provides the highest fidelity results. End to end testing includes testing against a production-like environment, so again, more bang for your buck to just test against the cloud.

I’ve definitely reached for these local cloud tools from time to time, but in a well-architected piece of software, you aren’t getting that much value from them. Either you don’t have a hard cloud dependency, or you want a high fidelity test of a specific cloud dependency.

Been using it for a while to run integration tests with Testcontainers [1]. It's very good and much more lightweight than Localstack.

[1]: https://testcontainers.com/

Local stubs for cloud services are a lifesaver when you're a one-person shop and don't want a surprise bill just to test a webhook path.

The cool part of this is it’s an example of what’s possible with a community of users armed with AI.

Many users, (myself included), had need to test cloud stuff locally, but had no tool to do so. Localstack exists, but it started rug pulling the free tier and they didn’t support all the features.

Meanwhile, Floci makes it easy to write your own cloud compatible test suite, then implement the feature to match. I was able to get a good enough coverage on a few features created in a weekend on the $20 tier of Claude to make it useful to me, then others picked up the work to round it out.

It’s really cool to see it grow.

Would someone be interested in this but intended for production? Im already running a whole bunch of cloudflare and AWS services in my own AWS fake and it works surprisingly well! :)

This looks very cool! Is this only intended for testing and development, or as a feasible way to migrante away from e.g., GCP as well?

I’m interested in something that would allow me to over time migrante away from a GCP project that uses many services today - e.g., Datastore, FileStorage etc.

Most likely a false positive, but worth noting for the people who run the project: Malwarebytes currently flags the site as 'potentially unsafe' when trying to visit it - not sure what the best avenue for them to get that fixed beyond reaching out to Malwarebytes might be

This is awesome, hope to see it mature over the years!

fakecloud is another project in the space, AWS only though https://fakecloud.dev/

Good work.

For us, floci-oci for object storage looks interesting. For everything else we have our own stack.