Lambda Service Skeleton

A skeleton application for deploying microservices on AWS Lambda.

This template aims to reduce the pain inherent in deploying services to AWS Lambda. By using a virtual environment locally we are able to isolate package resources from our global environment and ship them along with our payload to lambda since as of this time a package manager is not included with the service.

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• Declare required binaries in requirements.txt
• Build your application in the app/ directory
• edit every file that ends in variables.tf inside of infrastructure/
• Prepare deploy package

Prerequesites

• [sudo] pip install virtualenv
• sudo pip install awscli --ignore-installed six
• Install Terraform https://www.terraform.io

Installation

• clone repo
• edit variable.tf files in infrastructure/
• begin building your application in app/
• set your dependencies in requirements.txt

Commands

• make lambda_package: Prepare the Lambda Deployment package infrastructure/lambda/package.zip
• make deploy_test: Preview changes to AWS Infrastructure
• make deploy: deploy service to AWS (must run lambda_package first)
• make run: run your application locally (no need to be in the venv)
• make houston: run nose unit tests

MANUAL DEPLOY

If you do not want to use terraform or prefer the GUI for any other reason simply upload the payload using the browser and the AWS Console.