cdk-lambda-packaging-java

This sample application show how you can use AWS Cloud Development Kit(AWS CDK) to deploy a AWS lambda functions with external dependencies. AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) takes care of building and packaging lambda function with external dependencies out of the box. It was not possible this with AWS CDK until s3-assets was introduced.

Assets are local files or directories which are needed by a CDK app. A common example is a directory which contains the handler code for a Lambda function, but assets can represent any artifact that is needed for the app's operation. When deploying a CDK app that includes constructs with assets, the CDK toolkit will first upload all the assets to S3, and only then deploy the stacks. The S3 locations of the uploaded assets will be passed in as CloudFormation Parameters to the relevant stacks.

When defining an asset, you can use the bundling option to specify a command to run inside a docker container. The command can read the contents of the asset source from /asset-input and is expected to write files under /asset-output (directories mapped inside the container). The files under /asset-output will be zipped and uploaded to S3 as the asset.

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

It is a Maven based project, so you can open this project with any Maven compatible Java IDE to build and run tests.

Project structure

├── infrastructure          # Infrastructure code vi CDK(Java).
├── software                # Holds business logic in AWS lambda functions
│   ├── FunctionOne         # Sample Lambda function  
│   └── FunctionTwo         # Sample Lambda function
└── ...

Prerequisite

Make sure you have AWS CDK installed and configured with an aws account you want to use.
Ensure you have docker installed and is up and running locally.

Getting started

Change directory to where infrastructure code lives.

    cd infrastructure

Synthesize the cdk stack to emits the synthesized CloudFormation template. Set up will make sure to build and package the lambda functions residing in software directory. Build and packaging instruction for function resides in InfrastructureStack

    cdk synth

Deploy the CDK application

    cdk deploy

Useful commands

mvn package compile and run tests
cdk ls list all stacks in the app
cdk synth emits the synthesized CloudFormation template
cdk deploy deploy this stack to your default AWS account/region
cdk diff compare deployed stack with current state
cdk docs open CDK documentation

Enjoy!

Security

See CONTRIBUTING for more information.

License

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