This project is a minimum working example of deploying an AWS Lambda function using Docker and AWS CDK.
Deploying Lambda functions using Docker has a number of benefits
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Package all necessary libraries into a single Docker image
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Bypass AWS Lambda's size constraint of 512 mb. Docker images stored on AWS ECR have a maximum size of 10 gb.
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It’s easy!
The Dev.to article can be found here
mkdir project && cd projectcdk init --language python- Follow instructions below to activate venv, install libraries.
- Make sure you have activated your AWS credentials and
cdk deploy
This is a blank project for Python development with CDK.
The cdk.json file tells the CDK Toolkit how to execute your app.
This project is set up like a standard Python project. The initialization
process also creates a virtualenv within this project, stored under the .venv
directory. To create the virtualenv it assumes that there is a python3
(or python for Windows) executable in your path with access to the venv
package. If for any reason the automatic creation of the virtualenv fails,
you can create the virtualenv manually.
To manually create a virtualenv on MacOS and Linux:
$ python -m venv .venv
After the init process completes and the virtualenv is created, you can use the following step to activate your virtualenv.
$ source .venv/bin/activate
If you are a Windows platform, you would activate the virtualenv like this:
% .venv\Scripts\activate.bat
Once the virtualenv is activated, you can install the required dependencies.
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
At this point you can now synthesize the CloudFormation template for this code.
$ cdk synth
To add additional dependencies, for example other CDK libraries, just add
them to your setup.py file and rerun the pip install -r requirements.txt
command.
cdk lslist all stacks in the appcdk synthemits the synthesized CloudFormation templatecdk deploydeploy this stack to your default AWS account/regioncdk diffcompare deployed stack with current statecdk docsopen CDK documentation
Enjoy!