/geekout-serverless

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Geekout Serverless Workshop

Directories

  • github/workflows This is the workflows folder automatically created by Github to store all the steps required in Github Actions

  • donations This is the folder to store all the API functions

Serverless Configuration file

  • serverless.yml Contains the configuration we need for the cloud resources to provision for

Git

  1. Install Git
  2. Leave the default options and run through the installer
  3. Re-open Powershell

Prerequisites for AWS

  1. Login to AWS Console
  2. Create IAM User
  3. Retrieve IAM User Access Key & Secret Key (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/latest/userguide/pstools-appendix-sign-up.html)

Prerequisites for Serverless

  1. NodeJS installed
  2. npm -g serverless
  3. Retrieve IAM User Access Key & Secret Key (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/latest/userguide/pstools-appendix-sign-up.html)

Configure AWS CLI

  1. Install AWS CLI pip module
  2. Connect with AWS Programmatic Access via aws configure command and fill up with the details retrieved above.

Getting started with serverless

  1. serverless create --template aws-nodejs --path geekout-serverless
  2. Copy the donations folder and serverless.yml into your newly created folder
  3. serverless deploy

(if using Windows and running PS scripts for the first time, open Powershell with (Run as Admin) - enter command Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted)

Testing

  • serverless invoke -f hello
  • curl

Github Actions

  1. Login to Github, navigate to your repository
  2. Create Secret for GithubActions (Settings > Secrets)
  3. Create AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID && AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY as your secrets in step 2.
  4. Create workflow (Actions > New Workflow > Nodejs Template)
  5. Replace the generated yml with geekout-serverless/.github/workflows/ci.yml