ericnchen/aws-lambda-texlive repository overview

⁠aws-lambda-texlive

Provides a Docker image with a custom TeXLive installation 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 minimal packages installed (see PACKAGES) for my specific needs.

Tags

• latest

⁠Usage

This Docker image isn't really meant to be used by anyone except for me and the packages installed reflect that. Nonetheless, to create a zip archive with the latest image hosted on Docker Hub:

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

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

⁠Build

Customize the provided packages by editing PACKAGES to reflect what is needed. Take care to add only the packages needed as AWS Lambda imposes a 50 MB size limit for individual layer archives.

Clone the repository from Github:

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

Download the TeXLive installer and put it into the same directory. This can be done manually or with curl:

curl -LO http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz

Build the Docker image:

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

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

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

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