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Prerequisites

1. AWS CLI v2 configured
2. Docker installed
3. git configured
4. jq installed
5. zip installed

Setup

1. git clone https://github.com/Ducharme/awsCustomLambdas
2. Update values in file set_project_values.sh (defaults are PROJECT_NAME=hello and DOCKERFILE=Dockerfile_ubuntu)

• PROJECT_NAME: Lowercase string without space plus dash '-' char are valid
• DOCKERFILE: Dockerfile_aws or Dockerfile_bookworm or Dockerfile_ubuntu or NA (for custom image from zip file)

3. sh build_image.sh Note: Only for functions using docker image
4. sh create_role.sh
5. sh create_lambda.sh
6. sh create_api.sh

Single test in your current region

6. sh run_container_locally.sh Note: Only for functions using docker image
7. sh run_function_remotely.sh
8. sh run_function_from_apigw.sh

Global test accross multiple regions

9. sh test_cold_start_by_region.sh
10. sh run_function_by_region.sh

Clean up

Simply run sh cleanup.sh to delete all resources at once

• API Gateway / APIs ($PROJECT_NAME-api)
• Lambda / Functions ($PROJECT_NAME-lambda)
• Amazon ECR / Repositories ($PROJECT_NAME-repo)
• IAM / Roles ($PROJECT_NAME-lambda-role)
• CloudWatch / Log groups (/aws/lambda/$PROJECT_NAME-lambda)
• CloudWatch / Log groups (/aws/apigw/$PROJECT_NAME-api)

Documentation

• Custom Lambda runtimes
• Tutorial – Publishing a custom runtime
• Working with Lambda container images
• Testing Lambda container images locally
• Deploy Node.js Lambda functions with container images
• Lambda runtime API
• https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-base-images/
• https://gallery.ecr.aws/lambda/provided
• https://gallery.ecr.aws/lambda/nodejs