ericnchen/aws-lambda-perl repository overview

⁠aws-lambda-perl

Provides a Docker image with a base Perl 5 runtime installed to /opt for use with AWS Lambda.

Notes

• The resulting Docker image is based on lambci/lambda:build-nodejs10.x.
• This is a minimal installation with man pages removed and with only the default set of modules.

Tags

• latest, 5.30.0

⁠Usage

To create a zip archive with a pre-built (e.g., latest) image hosted on Docker Hub:

docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:/var/host ericnchen/aws-lambda-perl:latest bash -c "cd /opt; zip -qry -9 /var/host/perl-layer.zip ."

There should now be a zip archive called perl-layer.zip which can be uploaded to AWS Lambda.

⁠Build

Clone the repository from Github:

git clone https://github.com/ericnchen/aws-lambda-perl.git

Download the source code for Perl 5 and put it into the same directory. This can be done manually or with curl:

curl -LO https://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.30.0.tar.gz

Build the Docker image:

docker build -t aws-lambda-perl:latest .

There should now be a Docker image called aws-lambda-perl:latest with Perl 5 installed to /opt. This can then be packaged up for AWS Lambda:

docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:/var/host aws-lambda-perl:latest bash -c "cd /opt; zip -qry -9 /var/host/perl-layer.zip ."

There should now be a zip archive called perl-layer.zip which can be uploaded to AWS Lambda.