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Apex lets you build, deploy, and manage AWS Lambda functions with ease. With Apex you can use languages that are not natively supported by AWS Lambda through the use of a Node.js shim injected into the build. A variety of workflow related tooling is provided for testing functions, rolling back deploys, viewing metrics, tailing logs, hooking into the build system and more.

This project is designed for event-driven pipelines as it does not abstract away FaaS (functions as a service). If you are building web applications, APIs, or sites, consider using Apex Up, which provides a more out-of-the-box experience for these use-cases.

Installation

On macOS, Linux, or OpenBSD run the following:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apex/apex/master/install.sh | sh

Note that you may need to run the sudo version below, or alternatively chown /usr/local:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apex/apex/master/install.sh | sudo sh

On Windows download binary.

After downloading, rename binary file 'apex.exe', then add to PATH.

If already installed, upgrade with:

apex upgrade

Runtimes

Currently supports:

• Node.js
• Golang
• Python
• Ruby
• Java
• Rust
• Clojure

Example projects for all supported runtimes can be found in [_examples](_examples) directory.

Features

• Supports languages Lambda does not natively support via shim
• Binary install (install apex quickly for continuous deployment in CI etc)
• Hook support for running commands (transpile code, lint, dependency management, etc)
• Batteries included but optional (opt-in to higher level abstractions)
• Environment variable population via command-line, file, or inline config
• Idempotent deployments (checksums skip already-deployed code)
• Multiple environments via project.ENV.json and function.ENV.json files
• Configuration inheritance and overrides
• Command-line function invocation with JSON streams
• Command & function name autocompletion
• Function name globbing (ex: apex deploy api_*)
• Transparently generates a zip for your deploy
• Project bootstrapping with optional Terraform support
• Function metrics and cost analysis
• Ignore deploying files with .apexignore
• Function rollback support
• Tail function logs
• Concurrency for quick deploys
• Dry-run to preview changes
• VPC support
• Multiple region support
• Lambda@Edge support

Sponsors

Does your company use Apex? Help keep the project bug-free and feature rich by sponsoring the project.

Backers

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Example

Apex projects are made up of a project.json configuration file, and zero or more Lambda functions defined in the "functions" directory. Here's an example file structure:

project.json
functions
├── bar
│  ├── function.json
│  └── index.js
└── foo
 ├── function.json
 └── index.js

The project.json file defines project level configuration that applies to all functions, and defines dependencies. For this simple example the following will do:

{
 "name": "example",
 "description": "Example project"
}

Each function uses a function.json configuration file to define function-specific properties such as the runtime, amount of memory allocated, and timeout. This file is completely optional, as you can specify defaults in your project.json file. For example:

{
 "name": "bar",
 "description": "Node.js example function",
 "runtime": "nodejs4.3",
 "memory": 128,
 "timeout": 5,
 "role": "arn:aws:iam::293503197324:role/lambda"
}

Now the directory structure for your project would be:

project.json
functions
├── bar
│  └── index.js
└── foo
 └── index.js

Finally the source for the functions themselves look like this in Node.js:

console.log('start bar')
exports.handle = function(e, ctx) {
 ctx.succeed({ hello: e.name })
}

Apex operates at the project level, but many commands allow you to specify specific functions. For example you may deploy the entire project with a single command:

$ apex deploy

Or whitelist functions to deploy:

$ apex deploy foo bar

Invoke it!

$ echo '{ "name": "Tobi" }' | apex invoke bar
{ "hello": "Tobi" }

See the Documentation for more information.

Links

• Website
• Medium
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