This project contains source code and supporting files for a serverless application that you can deploy with the SAM CLI. It includes the following files and folders.
- fetcher - Code for the application's Lambda function and Project Dockerfile.
- events - Invocation events that you can use to invoke the function.
- tests - Unit tests for the application code.
- template.yaml - A template that defines the application's AWS resources.
The application uses several AWS resources, including Lambda functions and an API Gateway API. These resources are defined in the template.yaml
file in this project. You can update the template to add AWS resources through the same deployment process that updates your application code.
The Serverless Application Model Command Line Interface (SAM CLI) is an extension of the AWS CLI that adds functionality for building and testing Lambda applications. It uses Docker to run your functions in an Amazon Linux environment that matches Lambda. It can also emulate your application's build environment and API.
To use the SAM CLI, you need the following tools.
- SAM CLI - Install the SAM CLI
- Docker - Install Docker community edition
You may need the following for local testing.
- Ruby - Install Ruby 3.2
To build and deploy your application for the first time, run the following in your shell:
sam build
sam deploy --guided
The first command will build a docker image from a Dockerfile and then copy the source of your application inside the Docker image. The second command will package and deploy your application to AWS, with a series of prompts:
- Stack Name: The name of the stack to deploy to CloudFormation. This should be unique to your account and region, and a good starting point would be something matching your project name.
- AWS Region: The AWS region you want to deploy your app to.
- Confirm changes before deploy: If set to yes, any change sets will be shown to you before execution for manual review. If set to no, the AWS SAM CLI will automatically deploy application changes.
- Allow SAM CLI IAM role creation: Many AWS SAM templates, including this example, create AWS IAM roles required for the AWS Lambda function(s) included to access AWS services. By default, these are scoped down to minimum required permissions. To deploy an AWS CloudFormation stack which creates or modifies IAM roles, the
CAPABILITY_IAM
value forcapabilities
must be provided. If permission isn't provided through this prompt, to deploy this example you must explicitly pass--capabilities CAPABILITY_IAM
to thesam deploy
command. - Save arguments to samconfig.toml: If set to yes, your choices will be saved to a configuration file inside the project, so that in the future you can just re-run
sam deploy
without parameters to deploy changes to your application.
You can find your API Gateway Endpoint URL in the output values displayed after deployment.
To simplify troubleshooting, SAM CLI has a command called sam logs
. sam logs
lets you fetch logs generated by your deployed Lambda function from the command line. In addition to printing the logs on the terminal, this command has several nifty features to help you quickly find the bug.
NOTE
: This command works for all AWS Lambda functions; not just the ones you deploy using SAM.
portfolio-v3-fetcher$ sam logs -n FetcherFunction --stack-name portfolio-v3-fetcher --tail
You can find more information and examples about filtering Lambda function logs in the SAM CLI Documentation.
Tests are defined in the tests
folder in this project.
portfolio-v3-fetcher$ ruby tests/unit/test_handler.rb
To delete the sample application that you created, use the AWS CLI. Assuming you used your project name for the stack name, you can run the following:
sam delete --stack-name portfolio-v3-fetcher