Project setup

For this workshop we will be using AWS Chalice - a framework for writing serverless, API first and/or event driven applications. Anyone familiar with Flask or FastAPI should feel right at home with the decorator-based approach of Chalice.

I chose it because it is simple enough to get started in minutes and yet powerful enough to give you a taste of writing scalable apps on AWS. Developers like using it because it takes care of the heavy lifting for them and provisions (most of) the infrastructure needed.

It provides a very good developer experience since everything, the application and its infrastructure, can be deployed right from your machine or from a CI/CD system with a single command.

Steps

1. Clone the example repository with: git clone git@github.com:ivica-k/serverless-workshop-code.git
2. Navigate to where you cloned the repository and in that folder
3. Run the setup script and fill-in the answers: ./workshop_setup.sh
4. AWS credentials:
   1. Classroom-like setting: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY values will be provided to you.
   2. Use the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY values of the IAM user or assumed role.
5. Make use of the .env file which contains important variables:

{
    set -a
    source savealife/.env
    set +a
}