axul-contact

This is a sample template for axul-contact - Below is a brief explanation of what we have generated for you:

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├── Makefile                    <-- Make to automate build
├── README.md                   <-- This instructions file
├── hello-world                 <-- Source code for a lambda function
│   ├── main.go                 <-- Lambda function code
│   └── main_test.go            <-- Unit tests
└── template.yaml

Requirements

• AWS CLI already configured with Administrator permission
• Docker installed
• Golang
• SAM CLI - Install the SAM CLI

Setup process

Installing dependencies & building the target

In this example we use the built-in sam build to automatically download all the dependencies and package our build target.
Read more about SAM Build here

The sam build command is wrapped inside of the Makefile. To execute this simply run

make

Local development

Invoking function locally through local API Gateway

sam local start-api

If the previous command ran successfully you should now be able to hit the following local endpoint to invoke your function http://localhost:3000/hello

SAM CLI is used to emulate both Lambda and API Gateway locally and uses our template.yaml to understand how to bootstrap this environment (runtime, where the source code is, etc.) - The following excerpt is what the CLI will read in order to initialize an API and its routes:

...
Events:
    HelloWorld:
        Type: Api # More info about API Event Source: https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model/blob/master/versions/2016-10-31.md#api
        Properties:
            Path: /hello
            Method: get

Packaging and deployment

AWS Lambda Golang runtime requires a flat folder with the executable generated on build step. SAM will use CodeUri property to know where to look up for the application:

...
    FirstFunction:
        Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
        Properties:
            CodeUri: hello_world/
            ...

To deploy your application for the first time, run the following in your shell:

sam deploy --guided