Playwright on AWS Lambda

This is an example project for running Playwright on AWS Lambda using the newly released features of running custom container images as Lambda functions.

I also wrote a post about Playwright on AWS Lambda to my Hashbode blog.

NOTE! Currently only Chromium and WebKit browser are working. Firefox requires some more tuning...

How to use this

Requirements

• Docker
• AWS Command line interface installed and configured (if deploying to AWS)

Locally with Docker

Build docker container image

docker build -t playwright-aws-lambda-example:latest .

Run container

docker run -p 9000:8080 playwright-aws-lambda-example:latest

Invoke function

curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9000/2015-03-31/functions/function/invocations" -d '{}'

Deploying to AWS Lambda

In the following examples, replace YOUR_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID with your AWS Account Id.

Create repository on AWS ECR (Elastic Container Registry)

aws ecr create-repository --repository-name playwright-aws-lambda-example --image-scanning-configuration scanOnPush=true

Tag docker image for ECR repository

docker tag playwright-aws-lambda-example:latest YOUR_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/playwright-aws-lambda-example:latest

Login

aws ecr get-login-password | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin YOUR_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com

Push image to ECR

docker push YOUR_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/playwright-aws-lambda-example

Create and deploy an AWS Lambda function with your newly created container image! 🚀