A Python AWS Lambda packager. This projects is very loosely based on the work in serverless-wsgi.
NOTICE: This project is a work in progress and should be considered unstable.
Features:
- Written to run under both Python 3.6 and 2.7.
- Generates Python 3.6 and 2.7 AWS Lambda Deployment Packages, user configurable.
- AWS Lambda Deployment Packages are generated in isolated, temporary virtualenvs.
- Per project configuration files to cut down on typing.
- Can be easily be included and integrated into other projects as a library.
$ pip install py-lambda-packer
To install directly the bleeding edge version from GitHub:
$ pip install git+https://github.com/pedrohdz/py-lambda-packer.git@master#egg=py-lambda-packer
To install a specific tag or branch, replace master
in the URL of
the previous command with the desired name.
Quick example command to generate py-lambda-package.zip
for upload
to AWS as a Lambda Function
$ py-lambda-packer --requirement requirements.txt --package . \ --python python3.6 --include LICENSE
Command help information:
$ py-lambda-packer --help usage: py-lambda-packer [-h] [--config-file CONFIG_FILE] [--include INCLUDES] [--exclude EXCLUDES] [--followlinks] [--virtualenv-dir VIRTUALENV_DIR] [--keep-virtualenv] [--python PYTHON] [--requirement REQUIREMENTS] [--package PACKAGES] [--output OUTPUT] [--archive-dir ARCHIVE_DIR] [--keep-archive] [--generate-config] optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --config-file CONFIG_FILE location of configuration file (default: ./py-lambda- packer.yaml) --include INCLUDES glob pattern of what to include, multiple allowed (default is empty) --exclude EXCLUDES glob pattern of what to exclude, multiple allowed (default is empty) --followlinks follows symbolic links (default=False) --virtualenv-dir VIRTUALENV_DIR directory to build the virtualenv in (default is a tmp dir) --keep-virtualenv do not delete virtualenv build directory when set (default=False) --python PYTHON version of python to build virtualenv with (default is python2.7) --requirement REQUIREMENTS, -r REQUIREMENTS pip requirements file to read, multiple allowed (default is empty) --package PACKAGES, -p PACKAGES pip package index options, multiple allowed (default is empty) --output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT name of output zip file (default is py-lambda- packer.zip) --archive-dir ARCHIVE_DIR directory to build the archive in (default is a tmp dir) --keep-archive do not delete archive build directory when set (default=False) --generate-config prints thedefault configuration to help create one
Project configuration file are named py-lambda-packer.yaml
in the
base directory of your project. Here is an example:
virtualenv: python: python2.7 pip: requirements: - requirements.txt packages: - . - Flask packager: target: py-lambda-package.zip followlinks: true includes: - LICENSE - static/** - templates/**/*.html excludes: - static/**/*.tmp
To generate a configuration file, try the
py-lambda-packer --generate-config
command.
- Bump up code coverage limit back up to 80% and fix failing source files.
- Add comments to configuration file created by
py-lambda-packer --generate-config
. - Document the py-lambda-packer API so that it can be imported as a library into other projects.
- Make the
colorlog
Python package optional to allow py-lambda-packer to be imported into other projects as a library more cleanly. - Plugin support.
- Support building packages with C and C++ Python extensions. Thinking out loud... Spin up an EC2 instance on the fly via something like HashiCorp Packer, build, package, destroy instance.
- Clean up Windows compatibility. (I do not have access to a Windows based system, so any contributions here would be greatly appreciated.)
- Support packaging for other Function as a Service (FaaS) platforms provided by : Azure, Google Cloud, etc.
- AWS Documentation - Creating a Deployment Package (Python)
- Stackoverflow answer - The question pertains to AWS lambda function for Alexa, but the answer is generally relevant to packaging Python AWS Lambdas.
If you are working with the Serverless Framework the following plugins might be of interest to you:
- serverless-wsgi - "Serverless plugin to deploy WSGI applications (Flask/Django/Pyramid etc.) and bundle Python packages". This py-lambda-packer is loosely based on this project. Many thanks to the contributors of that project.
- serverless-python-requirements - "Serverless plugin to bundle Python packages".
For a full list of Serverless Framework plugins, refer to serverless/plugins.
Other frameworks that are worth investigating are:
- AWS Labs Chalice - "Python Serverless Microframework for AWS".
- Zappa - "Serverless Python Web Services".
Please keep in mind that this list is not intended to be extensive. It is only here to help folks branch out their investigations.