lambda-packaging-example

Example code for packaging a python Lambda function. Demonstrates the exclusion of unwanted code from the package e.g. wheel, setuptools, pip.

1. Create a virtualenv, preferably matching the python version used on AWS: virtualenv -p python3.6 env

2. Install the requirements: pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Optionally use terraform to create the function, IAM role and policy, supporting S3 bucket and object. Defaults to the staging AWS profile in your credentials file. Run terraform init, terraform plan and terraform apply.

4. Run the build and deploy scripts. It uploads quicker and the code can be previewed in the AWS dashboard.

5. Run the function and see a funny.