How to create table in the local Dynamodb?

Solution 1:

I'm not familiar with aaronshaf/dynamodb-admin, but I've been able to set up dynamodb-local to work very well for the entire dev/test lifecycle.

1. In the terminal run docker run -p 8000:8000 amazon/dynamodb-local -jar DynamoDBLocal.jar -sharedDb -inMemory to run dynamodb-local image on localhost:8000
2. Run any command you need via aws-cli but specify the local endpoint. Ex.

aws dynamodb create-table \
    --table-name YourTableName \
    --attribute-definitions \
        AttributeName=YourPK,AttributeType=S \
        AttributeName=YourSK,AttributeType=S \
    --key-schema AttributeName=YourPK,KeyType=HASH AttributeName=YourSK,KeyType=RANGE \
    --provisioned-throughput ReadCapacityUnits=1,WriteCapacityUnits=1 \
    --endpoint-url http://localhost:8000

3. To run your app locally with DynamoDb-Local, configure your DynamoDB SDK client's endpoint to http://localhost:8000.