This project builds a Docker image with DynamoDB Local and dynamodb-admin installed and hooked up.
docker pull instructure/dynamo-local-admin
docker run -p 8000:8000 -it --rm instructure/dynamo-local-admin
Now open http://localhost:8000/ in your browser, and you'll see the admin UI. You can also hit port 8000 with Dynamo API requests:
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=key AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=secret aws --region us-east-1 dynamodb --endpoint http://localhost:8000/ list-tables
A proxy is included which differentiates between Dynamo requests and web requests, and proxies to the appropriate server.
It's just very convenient if you do a lot of Dynamo development.
If you're using Dinghy and its automatic proxy, VIRTUAL_HOST and VIRTUAL_PORT are already set, so you don't have to specify any ports in the docker run and can just open http://dynamo.docker/ in your browser.