DynamoDB Local Tutorial in Python with Docker | Beginner Guide

In this video, I show you how to set up and run DynamoDB local in a docker container. I continue to show you how to perform some basic operations in python and examining the result.

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[ketanpokar]

Had watched this video once and then was searching my history to watch it for 2nd time as I was not able to search it through youtube again. TYSM.

[DanhWasHere]

Wonderfully paced quickstart and not a second wasted -very happy I found this video and it was at the top of the search results!

[incognito]

clear and simple explanation! Ty dude! Subscribed

[gggat]

great video!! i got resource not found exception at insert, but after running a few times the table got created quickly enough.

[cloudSolutionsKazmi]

nice video, also i have a question . how can i change sharedDb to true or inMemory to false to prevent tables to delete after system restarts

[rafaelstrack]

Does anyone know what's the best way to setup the dynamo container for integration testing on CI? I mean, when i run the docker container, the dynamo db does not have any tables, is the best option to run a shell script?

[jaimemenendezalvarez]

It's sad that boto3 doesn't have autocomplete for python. That makes the productivity using python considerably lower for me. Either way, Great video! Thanks!!

[harisssss]

Wish there was a free GUI tool to visualise the local DynamoDB table like Dynobase.

[happymaheshwar]

Hi, was wondering if it’s possible to create a docker-compose.yml file that could create dynamodb locally with a table and items in it. I am working on it and find that the container is unable to follow the AWS commands such as aws dynamodb create table inside the running container (throwing command not found error). Also tried using .sh file …. Still no luck.

[holyproton]

Can you view the database via web browser ?

[ethanphan]

Have you tried the NoSQL WorkBench to visualise it?

[shankerreddys.b.]

can we add more than 5 global secondary indexes in local dynamo?