Docker AWS Serverless

Docker image containing AWS CLI, AWS shell, NodeJS, Serverless Framework, and some scripts to ease AWS deployments.

Usage

Build Locally

If you want to build and use your own local image

# build image locally
$ make dockerBuild
# go inside the container
$ make dockerShell

Environment Variables

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=
AWS_ACCOUNT_ID=

# Cloudformation stack name to be created/updated/deleted
STACK_NAME=
# the cloudformation file path
CFN_FILE=
# the cloudformation params file
CFN_PARAMS_FILE=

Those environment variables must all be set

• using a file and passing it to docker run --env-file path/to/file (see example)
• passing them to docker run -e NAME1=value1 -e NAME2=value2
• a mix of both

Update Docker image

New version of Serverless Framework

1. Change SERVERLESS of Dockerfile
2. Change SERVERLESS_VERSION of Makefile
3. Build and test locally
4. Commit and push the changes
5. Tag the commit with the command make gitTag
6. Go to hub.docker.com
7. In Build Details tab, you should now see the new tag kicking off

Fix for the current version

1. Do the fixes you want to do
2. Build and test locally
3. Commit and push the changes
4. Run make gitTag
5. Go to hub.docker.com
6. In Build Details tab, you should now see build the tag kicking off

Ways of using the image

Here are some ways of using the image

• running one container per command (see example)
• running a container and stay inside it to execute the commands

Docker image

The Docker image has the following:

• Node 6.10 (Alpine)
• aws-cli
• aws-shell
• Serverless Framework v1.4
• yarn
• zip: handy to zip your own serverless artefact
• envsubst: quite useful to create file based on a template using env vars

Scripts

Some scripts has been written to help deploying to AWS (see example)

Name	Description
cfn-create-or-update.sh	Create or update a cloudformation
cfn-delete.sh	Delete a cloudformation
cfn-validate-template.sh	Validate a cloudformation template