Limitations

Some LocalStack services have limited or no support when running on Kubernetes. This page documents these known limitations.

Note

We are continually working on improving parity between Docker and Kubernetes so there will be fewer limitations in the future.

Unsupported services

The following services require the use of Docker, and are not supported when running LocalStack on Kubernetes:

• Sagemaker
• Bedrock
• EKS
• CodeBuild

Limitations of partially supported services

SSM

• Exec into EC2 instances is not supported.

ECS

• Firelens is not supported.
• Volumes are not supported.
• Exposing ports from tasks is not supported.
• RepositoryCredentials is not supported.

EC2

• Userdata does not have full parity with AWS.

ElastiCache/MemoryDB

• Requires using REDIS_CONTAINER_MODE=1.

RDS

• MySQL 5.7 is not supported on Kubernetes.
• Persistence is not supported.

Neptune

• Persistence is not supported.