Amazon Lambda Containers - How to Package AWS Functions as Container Images

Amazon now supports container images as the deployment package format for its AWS Lambda Functions as a Service (FaaS) offering. Containers are finally replacing ZIP files.
Timecodes ⏱:
00:00 Intro
03:47 Setup
07:08 Building container images
12:33 Testing Lambda containers locally
15:12 Pushing images to ECR
20:51 Deploying Lambda containers
24:24 Testing Lambda functions
26:17 Final thoughts
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[@SuMiSc]

Nice intro!

[@DevOpsToolkit]

I'm glad you like it. Any suggestion of the topic you'd like to see next?

[@SuMiSc]

You talk a lot about autodeploy. All you show looks nice and definitely motivate do the same. And I wonder what's under the hood. Tell about it, pls. I mean hooks, scripts, etc.

[@DevOpsToolkit]

@@SuMiSc Is there something specific you're interested in? How I build container images? How I set up Gitpod (the tools installed and the configs)? Something else?

[@SuMiSc]

It's up to you. You are an expert here ) I like Git. So Gitpod sounds good

[@DevOpsToolkit]

That makes it easy since I already went through Gitpod :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4eUl4yqYpyGgrc

[@andrebittencourt5512]

Excellent content! Thanks a lot, keep going you are helping more people than you might know!

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Thank you for the encouragement.

[@manidevops8501]

The Explanation is so clear... FAAS should be more easier in container than packing in zip. I enjoyed the way to did everything on terminal... @gitpods simple and effective developing environment. Cheers @The Devops Toolkit Series.

[@EdwardPike]

The music on your intro credits is great.

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Thanks

[@josephsmall5349]

Thank you for the excellent video!

[@DanteBarboza]

You saved my life, thank you

[@DevOpsToolkit]

I would not go as far as saying that i saved your life 🙂

[@DanteBarboza]

@@DevOpsToolkit Well not literally, but you were a lot of help 😉

[@vane3660]

Hello, excellent video, do you have the idea to use the lambda function to get the image and them with a batch file or other way deploy to update or create the ecs task definition??

[@DevOpsToolkit]

I'm not working much with ecs so I might not be the best person to answer that question. I transition all my workloads to Kubernetes and do not consider ecs a good option any more.

[@dmsanz_youtube]

Great video. Have you used Localstack? I saw the pro version mentions support for lambda containers. I wonder if that means that it's possible to do what you did but deploying the container locally

[@DevOpsToolkit]

I haven't tried it (yet). Is it something like a local version of AWS meant for development?

[@dmsanz_youtube]

@@DevOpsToolkit yes, exactly that. It's for running and testing AWS locally. I come from Azure and there are certain services such as azure Service Bus that can't be executed locally, no docker, no emulator. With AWS fortunately, for many, there's this localstack where you can run everything locally (offline if you want) interacting with it through the AWS CLI as if you were pointing to the "real" one. Thanks again for your videos!

[@DevOpsToolkit]

I heard about it a while ago, but never dig into it. One more thing on my ever growing TODO list...

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Just published a video about LocalStack: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpnMaoNnm8uUh80

[@jimmcdonald1253]

Excellent introduction. Very well done and easy to follow. You set up API Gateway as a trigger...how about adding a section showing how to call through the API Gateway endpoint?

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Great suggestion! Adding it to my TODO list...

[@MrRetroboyish]

Can I get some example use cases for lambda + containerization?

[@DevOpsToolkit]

There should be link to the gist with all the commands i executed in the description of the video.

[@fpvclub7256]

How would you suggest managing Lambda deployments in AWS? Are there any gitOps tools or patterns that you're aware of that would help us? #no-argo-for=lambda :D

[@DevOpsToolkit]

Most (if not all) GitOps tools are designed to work inside Kubernetes. If you use Lambda for some apps but also Kubernetes for something else, I would suggest defining Lambda as Kubernetes resources, do synchronization with Argo CD or Flux, and let tools like Crossplane or AWS ACK do the rest of the job. Or you can skip GitOps and do it through pipelines. If you do it like that, any IaC tool should be OK.

[@cpmcmanaman]

Hi V, Did you delete the github repository lambra-container-demo?

[@DevOpsToolkit]

You have a typo. It's not lambRa-... but lambDa-.... The address is github.com/vfarcic/lambda-container-demo.

[@cpmcmanaman]

@@DevOpsToolkit Oh rock and roll!! Thanks :) Great demo!! :)

[@kush_the_uncle8296]

I am the 100th like :)

[@adlythebaud1412]

Random question: Are you AWS certified?

[@DevOpsToolkit]

I'm not. The last time I got certified was 20 years ago. I think it was something around .Net :(