Quarkus - Amazon Lambda

The quarkus-amazon-lambda extension allows you to use Quarkus to build your Amazon Lambda’s.Your lambdas can use injection annotations from CDI or Spring and other Quarkus facilities as you need them.

Quarkus lambdas can be deployed using the Amazon Java Runtime, or you can build a native GraalVM executable and useAmazon’s Custom Runtime if you want a smaller memory footprint and faster cold boot startup time.

Prerequisites

To complete this guide, you need:

Getting Started

This guide walks you through generating an example Java project via a maven archetype and deploying it to AWS.

Installing AWS bits

Installing all the AWS bits is probably the most difficult thing about this guide. Make sure that you follow all the stepsfor installing AWS CLI.

Creating the Maven Deployment Project

Create the Quarkus AWS Lambda maven project using our Maven Archetype.

  1. mvn archetype:generate \
  2.        -DarchetypeGroupId=io.quarkus \
  3.        -DarchetypeArtifactId=quarkus-amazon-lambda-archetype \
  4.        -DarchetypeVersion=1.0.0.CR1

Choose Your Lambda

The quarkus-amazon-lambda extension scans your project for a class that implements the Amazon RequestHandler interface.It must find a class in your project that implements this interface, or it will throw a build time failure.If it finds more than one handler class, a build time exception will also be thrown.

Sometimes though, you might have a few related lambdas that share a ton of code and creating multiple maven modules is justan overhead you don’t want to do. The quarkus-amazon-lambda extension allows you to bundle multiple lambdas in oneproject and use configuration or an environment variable to pick the handler you want to deploy.

The generated project has two lambdas within it. One that is used, and one that is unused. If you open upsrc/main/resources/application.properties you’ll see this:

  1. quarkus.lambda.handler=test

The quarkus.lambda.handler property tells Quarkus which lambda handler to deploy. This can be overridenwith an environment variable too.

If you look at the two generated handler classes in the project, you’ll see that they are @Named differently.

  1. @Named("test")
  2. public class TestLambda implements RequestHandler<InputObject, OutputObject> {
  4. }
  6. @Named("unused")
  7. public class UnusedLambda implements RequestHandler<InputObject, OutputObject> {
  9. }

The CDI name of the handler class must match the value specified within the quarkus.lambda.handler property.

Deploy to AWS Lambda Java Runtime

There are a few steps to get your lambda running on AWS. The generated maven project contains some helpful scripts tocreate, update, delete, and invoke your lambdas for pure Java and native deployments.

Build and Deploy

Build the project using maven.

  1. mvn clean install

This will compile and package your code.

Create an Execution Role

View the Getting Started Guide for deployinga lambda with AWS CLI. Specifically, make sure you have created an Execution Role. You will need to copy andpaste the Role Arn into the scripts generated by the maven archetype.

Edit Script Files

Edit the create.sh and create-native.sh scripts included with the generated project. After the —role switchreplace the dummy Role Arn with the Arn of the Execution Role you created in the Amazon IAM console.

Create the function

The create.sh script is for deploying your lambda using the AWS Lambda Java runtime.

create.sh

  1. aws lambda create-function --function-name my-function \
  2.            --zip-file fileb://target/my-function-1.0-SNAPSHOT-runner.jar \
  3.            --handler io.quarkus.amazon.lambda.runtime.QuarkusStreamHandler::handleRequest \
  4.            --runtime java8 \
  5.            --role arn:aws:iam::1234567:role/lambda-cli-role

Don’t forget to replace the —role flag with the Arn of your Execution Role.

DO NOT CHANGE the handler switch.This must be hardcoded to io.quarkus.amazon.lambda.runtime.QuarkusStreamHandler::handleRequest. This Quarkushandler bootstraps Quarkus and wraps your actual handler so that injection can be performed.

If there are any problems creating the function, you must delete it with the delete.sh script before re-runningthe create.sh script.

Invoke the Lambda

Use the invoke.sh script to invoke your function.

invoke.sh

  1. aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function
  2.                   --payload file://payload.json out
  3.                   --log-type Tail --query 'LogResult' --output text |  base64 -d

The example lambda takes input. This input is passed in via the —payload switch which points to a json filein the root directory of the project. If you want to see the return output of the lambda, open the out file.This script will also write the log output to the console.

Update the Lambda

You can update the Java code as you see fit. Once you’ve rebuilt, you can redeploy your lambda by executing theupdate.sh script.

update.sh

  1. aws lambda update-function-code --function-name my-function \
  2.            --zip-file fileb://target/my-function-1.0-SNAPSHOT-runner.jar

Deploy to AWS Lambda Custom (native) Runtime

If you want a lower memory footprint and faster initialization times for your lambda, you can compile your Javacode to a native executable using GraalVM. Just make sure to rebuild your project with the -Dnative switch.

Build and Deploy (native)

Build the native executable.

  1. mvn clean install -Dnative

This will compile and create a native executable image using GraalVM. It also generates a zip file target/function.zip.This zip file contains your native executable image renamed to bootstrap. This is a requirement of Amazon LambdaCustom Runtime.

Create an Execution Role

View the Getting Started Guide for deployinga lambda with AWS CLI. Specifically make sure you have created an Execution Role. You will need the Role Arn to copy/pasteinto the scripts generated by the maven archetype.

Edit native script files

Edit the create-native.sh scripts included with the generated project. After the —role switchreplace the dummy Role Arn with the Arn of the Execution Role you created in the Amazon IAM console.

Create the Native Lambda

The create-native.sh script is for deploying your lambda using the AWS Lambda Custom runtime.

create-native.sh

  1. aws lambda create-function --function-name my-native-function \
  2.            --zip-file fileb://target/function.zip --handler any.name.not.used \
  3.            --runtime provided --role arn:aws:iam::1234567:role/lambda-cli-role \
  4.            --environment Variables="{DISABLE_SIGNAL_HANDLERS=true}"

Don’t forget to replace the —role flag with the Arn of your Execution Role.

Notice that the —zip-file flag points to the function.zip file generated by the build.The handler switch is not used, but must be set. It can be any value. Finally, notice that an environment variablemust be set: DISABLE_SIGNAL_HANDLERS. This resolves an incompatibility with the Amazon Lambda Custom Runtime containerand GraalVM.

If there are any problems creating the function, you must delete it with the delete-native.sh script before re-runningthe create-native.sh script.

Invoke the Native Lambda

Use the invoke-native.sh script to invoke your function.

invoke-native.sh

  1. aws lambda invoke --function-name my-native-function
  2.                   --payload file://payload.json out
  3.                   --log-type Tail --query 'LogResult' --output text |  base64 -d

The example lambda takes input. This input is passed in via the —payload switch which points to a json filein the root directory of the project. If you want to see the return output of the lambda, open the out file.This script will also write the log output to the console.

Update the Native Lambda

You can update the Java code as you see fit. Once you’ve rebuilt, you can redeploy your lambda by executing theupdate-native.sh script.

update-native.sh

  1. aws lambda update-function-code --function-name my-native-function \
  2.            --zip-file fileb://target/function.zip

Examine the POM

If you want to adapt an existing project to use Quarku’s Amazon Lambda extension, there’s a coupleof things you need to do. Take a look at the generated example project to get an example of what you need to adapt.

  • Include the quarkus-amazon-lambda extension as a pom dependency

  • Configure Quarkus to build an uber-jar

  • If you are doing a native GraalVM build, Amazon requires you to rename your executable to bootstrap and zip it up. Notice that the pom.xml uses the maven-assemby-plugin to perform this requirement.