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Using Elastic File System (EFS) with Lambda

Using Elastic File System (EFS) with AWS Lambda

In this tutorial, we're going to learn about how to use Elastic File System (EFS) with AWS Lambda. We'll be using AWS CDK in this guide. It's an open source software development framework that lets you define cloud infrastructure. AWS CDK supports many languages including TypeScript, Python, C#, Java and

AWS Lambda environment variables

Using Environment variables and secrets (API keys, database passwords) in AWS Lambda

In this article, you're going to learn how to use environment variables and pass sensitive information such as API keys and database passwords securely to AWS Lambda. What are Environment Variables? Environment variables are variables whose values are set outside of the program (in our case - this program is

AWS Lambda Layers - How it Works

AWS Lambda Layers - The Complete Guide

In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll learn about why we need Lambda layer and how to create one. And, you'll also learn about how to use a lambda layer inside a lambda function. Before discussing about lambda layers - let us discuss about the problem it solves. Why do we need

AWS Lambda with SQS

Introduction Before discussing about using AWS Lambda with SQS, let us discuss about some basics What is AWS Lambda? AWS Lambda lets you to run your code without provisioning servers. It follows event driven architecture - meaning if any event happens - your lambda code will be invoked automatically. What

Using AWS Lambda in VPC with S3

Using AWS Lambda in VPC with S3

In previous article, we've discussed about how to use AWS Lambda to interact with S3 (read, write, triggers, generate presigned url etc..). If you want to understand the basics of using lambda with S3, you can read that article first. In this article, you're going to discuss various ways to

Using AWS Lambda with S3

In this article, we're going to discuss on how to use AWS Lambda with S3 service for various use cases. All code samples use typescript and use AWS CDK as Infrastructure as Code (IaC tool). If you're new to AWS CDK, I've written beginner's guide to AWS CDK here. Please

How to run docker containers in AWS Lambda - along with CI/CD pipeline

How to run docker containers in AWS Lambda - along with CI/CD pipeline

In this article, you're going to learn about how to run docker containers in AWS Lambda. Before discussing on how to do that, let us discuss about the need of running the lambda using docker. Sometimes, your lambda function may require huge number of dependencies or dependencies with large size.

How to run cron jobs (on a schedule) in AWS Lambda

How to run cron jobs (on a schedule) in AWS Lambda

In this article, were going to discuss about how to run AWS Lambda function periodically or in a schedule. As you may know, we need some form of trigger to call the lambda. For example, you can upload an object to S3 and this would create an event which in

Setting up a CI/CD Pipeline for AWS Fargate using AWS CodePipeline

In this guide, you're going to learn how to create infrastructure to host your dockerized application in AWS Fargate using AWS CodePipeline. Then, we're going to learn about how to setup CI/CD pipeline - so that when you push changes to your application - AWS CodePipeline CI/CD process

AWS CodePipeline with CodeBuild and CodeDeploy

The Beginner's Guide to AWS CodePipeline - Setup CI/CD Pipeline for Static Website

In this guide, you're going to learn about basics of AWS CodePipeline and learn how to setup CI/CD pipeline for static website using AWS CodePipeline. As AWS CodePipeline is a service provided by AWS, this would make more sense if you're using AWS for most of your infrastructure needs.

Gitlab & AWS Fargate

Setting up a CI/CD Pipeline for AWS Fargate using Gitlab CI CD

In this guide, you're going to learn how to create infrastructure to host your dockerized application in AWS Fargate using Gitlab CI CD. Then, we're going to learn about how to setup CI/CD pipeline - so that when you push changes to your application - Gitlab CI/CD pipeline

Setting up a CI/CD Pipeline for static website using Gitlab CI CD

In this guide, you're going to learn how to create an infrastructure in AWS to host react application - in fact, the steps would be same for all frameworks which ultimately generate static websites - such as Angular, Vue etc.. Then, we're going to learn about how to set up

Continuous integration and continuous deployment using GitLab CI/ CD

The Beginner's Guide to CI/CD in GitLab

In this guide, you're going to learn about how to set up CI/CD pipeline using GitLab. What is CI/CD Pipeline? At high level, a CI/CD pipeline is nothing but a series of steps that you do to integrate your code changes to the main branch, create package

AWS Fargate loves Dotnet

Setting up a CI/CD Pipeline for AWS Fargate using Github Actions - Dotnet version (Including creation of Infrastructure using AWS CDK)

In this guide, you're going to learn how to create infrastructure to host your dockerized application in AWS Fargate. Then, we're going to learn about how to setup CI/CD pipeline - so that when you push changes to your application - CI/CD pipeline will kick in, builds your

Setting up a CI/CD Pipeline for AWS Fargate using Github Actions - NodeJS version (Including creation of Infrastructure using AWS CDK)

Setting up a CI/CD Pipeline for AWS Fargate using Github Actions - NodeJS version (Including creation of Infrastructure using AWS CDK)

In this guide, you're going to learn how to create infrastructure to host your dockerized application in AWS Fargate. Then, we're going to learn about how to setup CI/CD pipeline - so that when you push changes to your application - CI/CD pipeline will kick in, builds your

Setting up a CI/CD Pipeline for React app using Github Actions (Including creation of infrastructure using AWS CDK)

Setting up a CI/CD Pipeline for React app using Github Actions (Including creation of infrastructure using AWS CDK)

In this guide, you're going to learn how to create an infrastructure in AWS to host react application - in fact, the steps would be same for all frameworks which ultimately generate static websites - such as Angular, Vue etc.. Then, we're going to learn about how to set up

The Beginner's Guide to AWS CDK

AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) is a software development framework that lets you define cloud resource using your favourite programming language. At the time of this writing, AWS CDK supports Typescript, Javascript, Python, C# and Java. Why AWS CDK? There are few options to provision AWS cloud resources. Manually creating

The Beginner's guide to Github Actions

What are Github Actions Github actions let you to automate your development workflows. For example, when you push your code to a branch, you want the tests to run before code review. You can do that by using Github Actions. Terminologies in Github Actions: Job & Steps: A job may contain

Step by step guide to use Github OpenID Connect (OIDC) - Don't store AWS access and secret keys in github secrets

Github Actions is a tool to automate your development workflows. Primarily it is being used as a CI/CD tool at many places. Let us consider a scenario where I want to deploy an application in AWS. To deploy an application, you need to prove your identity and you should