Can Hubot run in AWS Lambda?

[EugeneLiang]

Hi there!

Awesome job with Hubot, was playing around and it feels really cool.

Here's a newbie question: may I know how I can run a Hubot in AWS Lambda?
Do I package the hubot-script as per the instructions from AWS Lambda ( http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/nodejs-create-deployment-pkg.html ) ?

Thanks!

[wilrnh]

Thought of the same thing, and just came across:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37872640/deploy-hubot-on-aws-lambda

[davidlinse]

No reaction for a descent amount of time.. Any news on this ?

[technicalpickles]

Not as it exists now, unfortunately.

One difficulty in doing this is similar to what is described in #613 . Basically, hubot would need to be able to start up, process one message, and then exit. Currently, hubot doesn't have anyway to signal the completion of a message being processed. There is some talk of adopting Promises in hubot (#1338), and if that was widely applied to the code base, could be one way.

The other part of it I think is that there'd need to be an adapter for lambda, that is, receiving a message from it. You'd also probably need some sort of proxy that is connected to a real chat thing, that then sends messages for the lambafied hubot to then process, and then have a way to send messages back to chat.

If anyone is interested in implementing this, I'd suggest checking out the new Hubot Evolution we are using to propose, discuss, and accept new features into hubot ✨