Local development with cloud-spanner

Question

Is there any way to do local development with cloud spanner? I\'ve taken a look through the docs and the CLI tool and there doesn\'t seem to be anything there. Alternatively, ca

Answer 1

There is now an emulator offered from Google for local development. As of 5/2020, it's in beta.

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/emulator

It only stores data in memory, but you may be able to use the gcloud command line to backup and restore your development data to and from disk as needed.

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/backup/gcloud