State Management

Save, load, and manage LocalStack state for reproducible development environments and state snapshots, using lstk snapshot and its lstk save / lstk load aliases.

Capabilities

• Save and restore state as local snapshot files
• Save and load state to/from Cloud Pods (LocalStack platform storage)
• Save and load state to/from your own S3 bucket
• Share state across teams via Cloud Pods
• Auto-load a snapshot every time the emulator starts
• Enable persistent state across container restarts

Prerequisites

• lstk installed and authenticated (lstk login, or LOCALSTACK_AUTH_TOKEN in CI) — see the localstack skill
• A running emulator for save (lstk load will start one for you if needed)

lstk save / lstk load replace the legacy localstack state export/import and localstack pod save/load commands with a single snapshot interface. The destination REF decides where the state goes.