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Migrating a Service from a Container to Serverless
As serverless gains traction, the desire to experiment with moving from containers to serverless is undoubtedly growing. In this hands-on lab, we will review a few of the many things to consider when looking to adapt an application for serverless, specifically AWS Lambda. We will also explore the use of the distro-agnostic Serverless Framework to aid in our refactoring and application deployment.

Lab Info
Table of Contents
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Challenge
Create an Access Key/Secret Key
Use IAM to create an access key and a secret key for use with the Serverless Framework.
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Challenge
Install Packages
Globally install the
serverless
package with npm, then installserverless-http
to the project. -
Challenge
Refactor the Application
Export the application in
app.js
and comment out the port assignment line. -
Challenge
Use the Serverless Framework
Use the Serverless Framework to create template
handler.js
andserverless.yml
files, then update these files to reference the application and useserverless-http
.
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