AWS Serverless using AWS CDK

This repository describes how to implement basic patterns of AWS Serverless using AWS CDK. AWS CDK is a great tool for serverless applications because it helps you manage multiple serverless resources in one place.

Korean practice guide and demo is provided through the following video: AWS DevAxConnect - AWS Serverless service development with AWS CDK.

This project was implemented based on AWS CDK Project Template for DevOps for more fluent DevOps application.

Other "Using AWS CDK" series can be found in:

Repository structure
Solution coverage
Solution architecture
How to deploy
How to test
About CDK-Project
How to clean up
Security
License

Repository structure

Because this repository is basically a CDK-Project which is based on typescript, the project structure follows the basic CDK-Project form. This porject provide one stack and 3 lambdas. Before depoy this project, config/app-config.json should be filled in according to your AWS Account.

Solution coverage

This repository introduces the common patterns of AWS Serverless.

pattern 1: Amazon SNS -> Amazon Lambda -> Amazon DynamoDB
pattern 2: Amazon S3 -> Amazon Lambda -> Amazon DynamoDB
pattern 3: Amazon API Gateway -> Amazon Lambda -> Amazon DynamoDB

Solution architecture

Specifically, it is implemented assuming that we are developing a book catalog service for easy understanding.

flow 1: Async Single Request(Request to save one book)
flow 2: Async Batch Request(Request to save a large of books)
flow 3: Sync Single Request(Request for a list of books)

AWS services used are as follows:

Amazon Lambda: a serverless computing which run code without thinking about servers
Amazon Simple Notification Service(SNS): a fully managed messaging service for both application-to-application (A2A) and application-to-person (A2P) communication
Amazon Simple Storage Service(S3): object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere
Amazon API Gateway: a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale
Amazon DynamoDB: a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for any scale

How to deploy

To efficiently define and provision serverless resources, AWS Cloud Development Kit(CDK) which is an open source software development framework to define your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages is utilized .

Because this solusion is implemented in CDK, we can deploy these cloud resources using CDK CLI. Among the various languages supported, this solution used typescript. Because the types of typescript are very strict, with the help of auto-completion, typescrip offers a very nice combination with AWS CDK.

Caution: This solution contains not-free tier AWS services. So be careful about the possible costs. Fortunately, serverless services minimize cost if not used.

Prerequisites

First of all, AWS Account and IAM User is required. And then the following must be installed.

AWS CLI: aws configure --profile [profile name]
Node.js: node --version
AWS CDK: cdk --version
jq: jq --version

Please refer to the kind guide in CDK Workshop.

How to set up

First of all, enter your project basic configuration in the follwoing document: config/app-config.json. Fill in your project's "Name", "Stage", "Account", "Region", "Profile(AWS CLI Credentials)" in "Project" according to your environments.

{
    "Project": {
        "Name": "ServerlessCdk",
        "Stage": "Demo",
        "Account": "75157*******",
        "Region": "us-east-2",
        "Profile": "cdk-demo"
    }
}

If you don't know AWS Account/Region, execute the following commands to catch your AWS-Account.

aws sts get-caller-identity --profile [your-profile-name]
...
...
{
    "Account": "[account-number]", 
    "UserId": "[account-id]", 
    "Arn": "arn:aws:iam::75157*******:user/[iam-user-id]"
}

And then execute the following commands to set up CDK-Project. For details, please check setup_initial.sh file.

sh ./script/setup_initial.sh

How to provision

Let's check stack included in this CDK-Project before provisining. Execute the following command. The prefix "ServerlessCdkDemo" can be different according to your setting(Project Name/Stage).

cdk list
...
...
ServerlessCdkDemo-ServerlessStack

Now, everything is ready, let's provision all stacks using AWS CDK. Execute the following command which will deploy all stacks in order of subordination.

sh script/deploy_stacks.sh

How to test

For Async Single Request, execute the following command, which will publish SNS message(script/input_sns.json) and finally the lambda functions will be executed to save one book into DynamoDB.

sh script/publish_sns.sh
...
...
{
    "MessageId": "e78906f5-4544-5e19-9191-5e9ea2a859bd"
}

After executing this command, please check your DynamoDB. You can find a new item in that.

For Async Batch Request, execute the following command, which will upload a json file(script/input_s3.json) into S3 and finally the lambda functions will be executed to save a large of books into DynamoDB.

sh script/upload_s3.sh
...
...
upload: script/input_s3.json to s3://serverlesscdkdemo-serverlessstack-us-east-2-75157/batch/input_s3.json

After executing this command, please check your DynamoDB. You can find the multiple items in that.

For Sync Single Request, execute the following command, which will send http-get request and finally the lambda functions will be executed to get a list of books in DynamoDB.

sh script/request_api.sh
...
...
{
  "status": "success",
  "books": [
    {
      "isbn": "isbn-01",
      "src": "sns",
      "title": "book-01"
    },
    {
      "isbn": "isbn-03",
      "src": "s3",
      "title": "book-03"
    },
    {
      "isbn": "isbn-02",
      "src": "s3",
      "title": "book-02"
    },
    {
      "isbn": "isbn-04",
      "src": "s3",
      "title": "book-04"
    }
  ]
}

About CDK-Project

The cdk.json file tells the CDK Toolkit how to execute your app.

And the more usuful CDK commands are

cdk list list up CloudFormation Stacks
cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template
cdk destroy remove resources

How to clean up

Execute the following command, which will destroy all resources except S3 Buckets and DynamoDB Tables. So destroy these resources in AWS web console manually.

sh script/destroy_stacks.sh

Security

See CONTRIBUTING for more information.

License

This library is licensed under the MIT-0 License. See the LICENSE file.

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