Building AWS native serverless website
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This document provides steps to build a serverless website on AWS. It covers setting up Route 53 for domain registration, DynamoDB for data storage, IAM roles, Lambda functions to handle requests, API Gateway for endpoints, S3 for static hosting, ACM for SSL certificates, CloudFront for CDN and caching, and configuring DNS with Route 53. The overall process brings together these serverless AWS services to create a fully functional static website without having to manage any servers.
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Building AWS native serverless website
- 1. Building an AWS native serverless website RUNCY OOMMEN | 12-Oct-2019 @runcyoommen https://runcy.me
- 2. 1.Serverless – Introduction, understanding & advantages 2.Route 53 - Purchase a domain 3.DynamoDB – Setup tables/attributes/items 4.IAM - Required roles 5.Lambda - Make functions 6.API Gateway - Appropriate triggers 7.S3 - Host the static web files 8.ACM - Generate appropriate certificate 9.CloudFront - Create a global distribution 10.Route 53 - DNS redirection Today’s Agenda
- 4. “Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider runs the server, and dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources.” Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing_security
- 6. How did we get here?
- 9. A few good resources… • AWS Info page on serverless https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/ • Serverless Architectures https://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html • Lambda + Serverless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71cd5XerKss
- 10. What are we building today?
- 13. Pre-requisites to begin • AWS free-tier account • Get the source code https://github.com/roommen/runcystees • Basic knowledge of Python, HTML, JS, CSS • A good IDE like Visual Studio Code
- 14. 1. Purchase a domain • Login to AWS console • Select ‘Route 53’ from the services list • Click ‘Domain registration’ to get started and then on ‘Register Domain’
- 15. • Search for domain availability • Fill in the contact details and verify the email address
- 16. • Domain purchase request pending (max of 48 hrs) • Successful domain registration
- 17. 2. Fire up the DB • Select ‘DynamoDB’ from the services list (under Database section) • Click ‘Create table’ to get started
- 18. Provide appropriate table name, primary key. Leave the rest as default settings.
- 19. • Start adding the items by clicking on ‘Create item’ • Really simple DB schema consisting of id (Primary key) and desc of the tees
- 20. 3. Setup IAM role • Select ‘IAM’ from the services list (under Security, Identity & Compliance) • Navigate to ‘Roles’ to create a new role • Select Lambda as the service that will use this role • Click Next to attach the permissions
- 21. • Attach the below given pre-defined policies • Add appropriate tags (optional but good practice)
- 22. Provide an appropriate name and create the role
- 23. 4. Let’s make Lambda • Select ‘Lambda’ from the services list (under Compute) • Provide name, runtime and choose the role
- 24. In this web app example, we have: ✓ Show Tee Description – handled by ShowTeeDesc.py For Python to be enabled as Lambda function, we need to zip all source code and dependencies (if any)
- 25. We have boto3 as the only external dependency which need not be packaged as it’s already part of the default Python runtime for AWS Lambda • You should now have showTeeDesc.zip created • Verify the contents of the zip file and ensure contents look identical to screenshot below
- 26. • Now in the Lambda screen, upload the zip file created earlier and change the Handler info to showTeeDesc.lambda_handler • The format of Handler should be <python_filename>.lambda_handler
- 27. • Provide appropriate description and keep the memory and timeout as is • Click on ‘Save’ to create the Lambda function • Created function will be displayed as below
- 28. 5. Integration with API Gateway • Select ‘API Gateway’ from the services list (under Networking & Content Delivery) • Click ‘Create API’ • Choose the protocol, name and other details
- 29. • Choose ‘Create Resource’ from the Actions menu. • Make sure to ‘Enable API Gateway CORS’
- 30. Resource created - showteedesc • Select the resource and now click ‘Create Method’ • Choose ‘POST’
- 31. Configure POST method - showteedesc • Select appropriate region and the function that we had created earlier for integration
- 32. • Select a method and click “Enable CORS” • On the next screen, leave everything as is and click “Enable CORS and replace existing headers”
- 33. • Select “Deploy API” from ‘Actions’ Choose [New Stage] and provide appropriate values
- 34. • After deployment, the APIs would be available under stage • Click on POST method created for /showteedesc and see the API endpoint
- 35. Bringing it all together… index.html runcystees.js showTeeDesc.py SERVERLESS TRINITY
- 36. • Enable the APIs – Edit the JS function • Integrate the APIs with the relevant functions defined in runcystees.js to have them invoked
- 37. 6. Host web files on S3 • Select ‘S3’ from the services list (under Storage) • Click ‘Create bucket’ • Provide appropriate ‘Bucket name’ and ‘Region’ • Click ‘Create’
- 38. • Select the bucket that you created earlier • From the “Properties” tab select ‘Static website hosting’
- 39. • Provide appropriate ‘Index document’ and hit Save • You will now see an ‘Endpoint’ available which will serve you the website content
- 40. • Click on the ‘Permissions’ tab • Select ‘Bucket Policy’ • Enter the above policy to make it world readable
- 41. 7. Generate certificate • Select ‘Certificate Manager’ from the services (under Security, Identity & Compliance) • Click ‘Request a certificate’ • Select ‘Request a public certificate’ • Choose region as N. Virginia
- 42. Enter domain name for generating the certificate Select DNS validation
- 43. • Choose ‘Create record in Route 53’ to make the appropriate DNS entry for certificates • An entry would be created under Route 53 • Certificate status would be shown as Issued (~30 mins)
- 44. 8. Make CloudFront distribution • Select ‘CloudFront’ from the services (under Networking & Content Delivery) • Click ‘Create Distribution’ • Select ‘Web’ as the delivery method for content
- 45. • Provide ‘Origin Domain Name’ as the S3 bucket • Set protocol policy as ‘Redirect HTTP to HTTPS’
- 46. • Provide appropriate CNAME entries • Select the certificate created earlier from the custom list
- 47. • Click on ‘Create Distribution’ • Wait for the distribution to be created (~30 mins) • Set the default root object as the first html page
- 48. • Select ‘Route 53’ from the services list (under Networking & Content Delivery) 9. DNS redirection • Select the Hosted Zone displayed for your domain • Click on the ‘Create Record Set’ button
- 49. • Create a record set of type A as alias • Provide CloudFront domain name as the alias hosted target • The site is now available https://runcystees.com
- 50. • Your website is ** NOW LIVE ** @runcyoommen https://runcy.me