README.md

LocalStack Demo: Glue Crawler RedShift Integration (JDBC)

Simple demo application illustrating the use of AWS Glue Crawler to populate the Glue

To install the dependencies:

make install

This example shows how to use AWS Glue Crawler to populate the Glue metadata store with the table schema of RedShift database tables.

The following steps are executed when running the sample:

Create a RedShift cluster and database.
Create a Glue connection, specifying the JDBC connection properties for the RedShift database.
Create a Glue database to store the table metadata in.
Create a Crawler to populate the Glue database with the RedShift table metadata using the Glue connection.
Create a new table in the RedShift database.
Run the Crawler.
Check out the resulting table metadata.

Make sure that LocalStack is started:

LOCALSTACK_AUTH_TOKEN=... DEBUG=1 localstack start

The following command executes the sample:

make run

This sample code is available under the Apache 2.0 license.