AWS reInvent 2020 Run Lambda with Container Image | Tutorial & DEMO | Lambda and Kubernetes

[@buntysingh7315]

Great Video As Usual!!! Can you do a detailed comparison of lambda with containers vs fargate for running serverless apps comparing the cold starts as well as other pros and cons of both services?

[@cloudwithraj]

Great suggestion! Will do in a future video.

[@yajatgupta9256]

Hey Bunty, just wanted to check. Did you get finally understand the difference?

[@buntysingh7315]

@@yajatgupta9256 Yeah..Cold starts are almost similar for both serverless services, however for longer running adhoc tasks fargate is far more useful, also wherever you need atmoicity in execution you should go for fargate as we have seen cases where lambda has more than one execution even though it was called only once.

[@radiosification]

Thanks for this video but I found the audio to be very low. If you right click and go to stats for nerds on the youtube video it shows that it's -9.4dB. Obviously you can't change this video now but hopefully you can make sure the audio on future videos is not so quiet

[@iaroslavdavydiak6439]

Thanks Raj!

[@abh6967]

Cute doggo!!!

[@cloudwithraj]

Doggo says "wooof!!" 🐕.

[@onoff5604]

Thank you for the great video. Can you add some clarification on debian apt vs. aws-linux YUM (rpm/redhat/fedora etc) setup for the cloud9-ec2? e.g. Are there required setup and or package install steps not mentioned to get your demo to work? Many thanks! Keep up the great teaching!!

[@jhonnySonnny]

cool. This is actually how Fn project has been working even though AWS just released.

[@cloudwithraj]

Ohh really? I didn't know about it, thanks for pointing it out.

[@machireddyshyamsunder987]

Super cool feature .. I guess smart tech guys now can explore in more officiate way .. Thanks Raj for Nice explanation

[@cloudwithraj]

Thanks Shyam as always for the support!

[@vinodshalgar]

Thanks for sharing this valuable information. 👍

[@cloudwithraj]

Thanks Vinod!

[@sourabhk2373]

How on earth are those powerpoint transitions so good ? Is this microsoft powerpoint or some other tool that he is using ?

[@dhruvmalik6]

Excellent video, well planned....

[@PatrickSteil]

Great demo. Thx!

[@cloudwithraj]

Glad you liked it!

[@robertmcgill9078]

Very helpful video.

[@alvinlie9661]

Hi Agent of Change, can you please elaborate more where this container actually runs when invoked? is it running on ECS, EKS or Fargate in the account used? Thanks.

[@cloudwithraj]

Hi Alvin. The container is running using Lambda service. It is NOT running within ECS, EKS or Fargate.

[@alvinlie9661]

@@cloudwithraj Thank you :)

[@jamesbonding3988]

Quick question : you dockerized the lambda function and placed it in the ECR ...still this gets invoke thru the lambda as event. How to make a lambda function into a POD so it could run inside Kubernetes ? thanks!

[@seanhudson5889]

Cool video. Any idea on how to implement a custom RIC on top of a custom Amazon Linux base image? I was interested in seeing if it was possible to deploy a lambda using the amazoncorretto:15 base image.

[@cloudwithraj]

On the same blog (aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-container-image-support/), there is an example of custom base image, check that out if that satisfies your requirement

[@arunmanglick]

Awesome

[@johnjosephfernandes]

Hey what would you suggest is a scalable way to deploy this to aws and connecting to api gateway ?

[@cloudwithraj]

Hey John, you can deploy using your current devops pipeline of deploying lambda and api gateway. Note that SAM and CloudFormation supports grabbing the container from ECR for the lambda. You can use Jenkins, CodePipeline or any devops tool that supports CloudFormation/Terraform.

[@skgsnew]

Raj, do you know if it is possible to run windows docker containers in Lambda ?

[@cloudwithraj]

Only Linux right now, if you convert to .NET core then you can run that on Linux.

[@techfoundry6727]

any video coming-in for lambda container vs fargate ???

[@cloudwithraj]

In the pipeline, probably next week :). Too many hands on and announcements to catch up

[@rwang5688]

Thank you Raj. This is a timely and great video as usual. I saw an article that says this is a beta feature. Then Serverless Framework just announced support for this feature. I am confused. Is this officially available now? Which regions support this now? I see us west 2 in this video. I have a couple of containers that are currently stuck using ECS. But we really wish to be able to scale in to 0 task. Lambda with container image would make this so much easier for us.

[@cloudwithraj]

Thanks Robert for the kind words. Lambda container image support is live and generally available. It is available in these regions currently - US East (Virginia), EU West (Ireland), APAC NE (Tokyo), US West (Oregon), APAC SE (Singapore), EU Central (Frankfurt), US East (Ohio), and SA East (Sao Paulo).

[@aiya2323]

I see you are flexing that nanoleaf

[@cloudwithraj]

Good eye Y C :), do you like the lambda pattern ;)?

[@user779hjg45]

awesome

[@davidcech2030]

Perfect at playback speed >>> 1.25

[@ShoppingBored]

How do I connect to rds via tunneling when using docker?

[@luke123halley]

Thanks :)

[@cloudwithraj]

Welcome Luke!

[@worksofindustry]

GPU support in lambda would be sweet

[@johnjosephfernandes]

How do you test functions that are primary acting as a get api ?

[@cloudwithraj]

Do you mean Lambda as the backend of the API gateway GET method? You can test from API Gateway directly, or use Postman, curl, or SAM local.

[@johnjosephfernandes]

@@cloudwithraj hey thank you for reply . What I am trying out is , I have a lambda in golang and wanted to test it locally . My function takes querystring parameters . How do I invoke the lambda so that it takes my querystring parameters locally ?

[@cloudwithraj]

@@johnjosephfernandes Gotcha, querystring parameters will come into lambda event input. Print out the lambda event and fire from API once, capture the way lambda event is coming and determine how querystring values are passed to the event. Then in your local testing, use that event format and pass different values for the querystring directly.

[@johnjosephfernandes]

@@cloudwithraj hey I got it to work. Thanks for quick response

[@cloudwithraj]

@@johnjosephfernandes Amazing! Keep rocking John!

[@utakatech]

do you know if we can mount a ramdisk to leverage lambda 10GB of ram into a disk ?

[@cloudwithraj]

Hey Bilal, you can't use Lambda RAM for a regular EBS Disk with EC2. Lambda 10 GB RAM is usable only by the Lambda function itself.

[@utakatech]

@@cloudwithraj I mean, can it be hacked in a way I can leverage 10GB RAM into a ramdisk, by mounting it in dockerfile using like `mount -t tmpfs -o size=1024m myramdisk /tmp/ramdisk`

[@mithushanjalangan5132]

Could elaborate on the pricing ?

[@cloudwithraj]

Hi Mithushan, no additional pricing, you pay as usual for Lambda. If you store the container image in ECR then you pay for ECR (after free tier is used).

[@zizifn9142]

I wish lambda can just honor HTTP standard... No custom event, no code migration to lambda standard.. Please just follow web standard...

[@cloudwithraj]

Yes, that'd indeed be easy to use!

[@rupeshsingh6652]

Don't try to put fake accent. Normal Indian english suffice it.

[@dimitriosbizopoulos8226]

great video. its weird though that if you put on container image URI '123123523.amazon.com/imagebla:latest' it doesnt actually give u the latest. It gives the latest at that point. So if you update the registry image it will not get the latest.

[@iaroslavdavydiak6439]

Thanks Raj!