AWS Lambda Docker example

Example of using Docker to package, deploy and test Lambda functions.

This project builds a webapp using ReactJS that calls a APIGateway resource which has a Lambda integration on the attached routes.

The blog post for that references this project:

https://www.cheeyeo.dev/aws/python/lambda/docker/docker-compose/reactjs/2024/03/11/aws-lambda/

Running locally

To run locally, the following pre-requisites are required:

• node v20.11.1
• docker 25.0.4
• docker-compose v2.24.7
• python 3.12.2

To start the lambda and proxy services, run docker compose watch in the top directory.

To start the webapp, navigate to webapp and run yarn start

Access the app via http://localhost:3000

Deployment

For deploying to AWS:

• Create / use an ECR repository for the lambda

• Build, tag and push the lambda image

  export AWS_PROFILE=XXX
  
  aws ecr get-login-password --region eu-west-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin XXXX.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
  
  docker build -t docker-image:test -f deploy/lambda.dockerfile .
  
  docker tag docker-image:test XXXX.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/lambda-docker-test:latest
  

• Create the lambda function:

  aws lambda create-function \
    --function-name docker-test \
    --package-type Image \
    --code ImageUri=XXXX.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/lambda-docker-test:latest \
    --role arn:aws:iam::XXXX:role/LambdaExecutionRole \
    --region eu-west-1
  

• To update the lambda function:

  aws lambda update-function-code \
    --region eu-west-1 \
    --function-name docker-test \
    --image-uri XXXX.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/lambda-docker-test:latest \
    --publish
  

• Create a APIGateway resource in the required region. Create a route with POST action with a Lambda integration referencing the above lambda function

TODO:

• Add cloudformation template for creating the above resources ?