Add --containers, --arch and copyto to the EC2 sandbox script - #490
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Thanks for improving the setup 👏🏼
I'll be testing it this afternoon.
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Motivation
scripts/ec2-sandbox.shstarts up a throwaway Windows or Linux system on EC2 for testinglstkor LocalStack Toolkit. This PR adds some important features: run a real Docker Engine on Windows, build on ARM64 CPUs, and get a file onto the box without hand-rolling anscpcommand.Solution
Four additions to the sandbox script.
--containers=docker|podman— Windows sandboxes now default to real Docker Engine, accessible via\\.\pipe\docker_engine, the same endpoint Docker Desktop uses, sodocker.exeand lstk both find it with no configuration.--containers=podmankeeps the previous behaviour of using Podman.--arch=x64|arm64, required forcreate— Linux sandboxes can now be either ARM64 or x64 architecture. Windows is x64-only because ARM64 is not supported by Microsoft on their Windows server images (only on Windows Desktop).copyto <os> [--arch <a>] <path>— copies a file, or a directory and its contents, onto the sandbox's desktop (User's on Windows,user's on Linux). Important for manually installing.vsixfiles or other necessary test files.Every sandbox now also gets the AWS CLI, Terraform and the SAM CLI installed system-wide.