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AWS Lambda Handler Cookbook (Python)

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This project provides a working, open source based, AWS Lambda handler skeleton Python code including DEPLOYMENT code with CDK and a pipeline.

This project can serve as a template for new Serverless services - CDK deployment code, pipeline and handler are covered.

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Contact details | ran.isenberg@ranthebuilder.cloud

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Getting Started

You can start with a clean service out of this template repository without using the 'Template' button on GitHub.

You can use Cookiecutter.

  • Cookiecutter - install with pip/brew brew install cookiecutter or ``pip install cookiecutter`

Then run:

cookiecutter gh:ran-isenberg/cookiecutter-serverless-python

Answer the questions to select repo name, service name, etc.:

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That's it, your developer environment has been set! you are ready to deploy the service:

cd {new repo folder}
poetry shell
make deploy

You can also run 'make pr' will run all checks, synth, file formatters , unit tests, deploy to AWS and run integration and E2E tests.

The Problem

Starting a Serverless service can be overwhelming. You need to figure out many questions and challenges that have nothing to do with your business domain:

  • How to deploy to the cloud? What IAC framework do you choose?
  • How to write a SaaS-oriented CI/CD pipeline? What does it need to contain?
  • How do you handle observability, logging, tracing, metrics?
  • How do you write a Lambda function?
  • How do you handle testing?
  • What makes an AWS Lambda handler resilient, traceable, and easy to maintain? How do you write such a code?

The Solution

This project aims to reduce cognitive load and answer these questions for you by providing a skeleton Python Serverless service template that implements best practices for AWS Lambda, Serverless CI/CD, and AWS CDK in one template project.

Serverless Service - The Order service

  • This project provides a working orders service where customers can create orders of items.

  • The project deploys an API GW with an AWS Lambda integration under the path POST /api/orders/ and stores data in a DynamoDB table.

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Features

  • Python Serverless service with a recommended file structure.
  • CDK infrastructure with infrastructure tests and security tests.
  • CI/CD pipelines based on Github actions that deploys to AWS with python linters, complexity checks and style formatters.
  • CI/CD pipeline deploys to dev/staging and production environments with different gates between each environment
  • Makefile for simple developer experience.
  • The AWS Lambda handler embodies Serverless best practices and has all the bells and whistles for a proper production ready handler.
  • AWS Lambda handler uses AWS Lambda Powertools.
  • AWS Lambda handler 3 layer architecture: handler layer, logic layer and data access layer
  • Features flags and configuration based on AWS AppConfig
  • Idempotent API
  • REST API protected by WAF with four AWS managed rules in production deployment
  • CloudWatch dashboards - High level and low level including CloudWatch alarms
  • Unit, infrastructure, security, integration and end to end tests.
  • Automatically generated OpenAPI endpoint: /swagger with Pydnatic schemas for both requests and responses
  • CI swagger protection - fails the PR if your swagger JSON file (stored at docs/swagger/openapi.json) is out of date

CDK Deployment

The CDK code create an API GW with a path of /api/orders which triggers the lambda on 'POST' requests.

The AWS Lambda handler uses a Lambda layer optimization which takes all the packages under the [packages] section in the Pipfile and downloads them in via a Docker instance.

This allows you to package any custom dependencies you might have, just add them to the Pipfile under the [packages] section.

Serverless Best Practices

The AWS Lambda handler will implement multiple best practice utilities.

Each utility is implemented when a new blog post is published about that utility.

The utilities cover multiple aspect of a production-ready service, including:

Getting started

Head over to the complete project documentation pages at GitHub pages at https://ran-isenberg.github.io/aws-lambda-handler-cookbook

Code Contributions

Code contributions are welcomed. Read this guide.

Code of Conduct

Read our code of conduct here.

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License

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