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Posted on Jan 1, 2021 • Edited on Mar 28, 2021

Deploy Python Lambda Functions With Container Image

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You can deploy your Lambda function code as a container image. AWS provides the following resources to help you build a container image for your Python function:

AWS base images for Lambda
- These base images are preloaded with a language runtime and other components that are required to run the image on Lambda. AWS provides a Dockerfile for each of the base images to help with building your container image.
Open-source runtime interface clients
- If you use a community or private enterprise base image, add a runtime interface client to the base image to make it compatible with Lambda.

What’s In This Document

Create Docker image container
Create app.py as lambda handler
Build and push the image to ECR
Create Lambda container image
Test the lambda function

🚀 Create Docker image container

Create an image from AWS base image

Dockerfile.aws



FROM amazon/aws-lambda-python:3.8

COPY app.py ./

CMD ["app.handler"]

🚀 Create `app.py` as lambda handler



import sys


def handler(event, context):
    return 'Hello from AWS Lambda using Python' + sys.version + '!'

🚀 Build and push the image to ECR



aws ecr get-login-password --region ap-southeast-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 111111111111.dkr.ecr.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com
docker build -t pythonlambda .
docker tag pythonlambda:latest 111111111111.dkr.ecr.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/pythonlambda:latest
docker push 111111111111.dkr.ecr.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/pythonlambda:latest

🚀 Create Lambda container image

🚀 Test the lambda function

1. Invoke lambda function

Start container ```

docker rm -f lambdaimagetest
docker run -d --name lambdaimagetest -it pythonlambda:latest bash
docker exec -it lambdaimagetest bash

- Invoke lambda function

⚡ $ aws lambda invoke --function-name python-lambda-image --region ap-southeast-1 outfile

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"ExecutedVersion": $LATEST"
}
⚡ $ cat outfile

"Hello from AWS Lambda using Python3.8.5 (default, Aug 5 2020, 08:22:02) \n[GCC 8.3.0]!"


#### **2. Call lambda API from local container**
- This should be performed from AWS image base
- Run container

⚡ $ docker run -d --name testapi -p 9000:8080 pythonlambda:latest

- Call API

⚡ $ curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9000/2015-03-31/functions/function/invocations" -d '{}'
"Hello from AWS Lambda using Python3.8.6 (default, Dec 16 2020, 01:05:15) \n[GCC 7.3.1 20180712 (Red Hat 7.3.1-11)]!"

- Deploy new image
![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/bdrihq86bqmtnm4ei5xe.png)
- Invoke lambda function

⚡ $ aws lambda invoke --function-name python-lambda-image --region ap-southeast-1 outfile

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}
⚡ $ cat outfile
"Hello from AWS Lambda using Python3.8.6 (default, Dec 16 2020, 01:05:15) \n[GCC 7.3.1 20180712 (Red Hat 7.3.1-11)]!"


**Mirror**:
- https://github.com/vumdao/lambda-container-image
- https://vumdao.hashnode.dev/deploy-python-lambda-functions-with-container-image

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Top comments (5)

ymmark01 • Apr 22 '22

Hi, when testing with curl, where does the path "2015-03-31/functions/function/invocations" come from?

🚀 Vu Dao 🚀 • Apr 23 '22

That API path is in the container image where there's process listens to, you should have a check

Jason Yuen • Mar 27 '21

I am trying to follow step 1 but getting this os.environ error. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 194, in run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/awslambdaric/main.py", line 21, in
main(sys.argv)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/awslambdaric/main.py", line 14, in main
lambda_runtime_api_addr = os.environ["AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API"]
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/os.py", line 675, in __getitem_
raise KeyError(key) from None
KeyError: 'AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API'

Cherny • Mar 22 '22

you should use aws-lambda-rie (emulator) instead of aws-lambda-ric - docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/.... I believe that environment variable is set by AWS, so if it's not present that script will execute the emulator. This is an example

entry_script.sh

#!/bin/sh

if [ -z "${AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API}" ]; then
    exec /usr/local/bin/aws-lambda-rie /usr/local/bin/python -m awslambdaric $@
else
    exec /usr/local/bin/python -m awslambdaric $@
fi

Dockerfile

FROM python:3.9-bullseye

ARG FUNCTION_DIR="/function"
WORKDIR ${FUNCTION_DIR}

RUN curl -Lo /usr/local/bin/aws-lambda-rie \
    https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-runtime-interface-emulator/releases/latest/download/aws-lambda-rie && \
    chmod +x /usr/local/bin/aws-lambda-rie

COPY entry_script.sh ${FUNCTION_DIR}

# Install dependencies
RUN pip install \
    --target ${FUNCTION_DIR} \
    awslambdaric

# Copy function code
COPY src/* ${FUNCTION_DIR}

ENTRYPOINT [ "sh", "entry_script.sh" ]
CMD [ "app.handler" ]

🚀 Vu Dao 🚀 • Mar 28 '21

Hi Jason,

I guess you're trying to build lambda image from alternative base image but I recommend to use image base from AWS such as public.ecr.aws/lambda/python:3.8 or amazon/aws-lambda-python:3.8

For your issue, you're missing setting ENV AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API=, this variable env must be defined but you will still get following error after that

  File "/function/awslambdaric/lambda_runtime_client.py", line 76, in wait_next_invocation
    response_body, headers = runtime_client.next()
RuntimeError: Failed to get next

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Deploy Python Lambda Functions With Container Image

You can deploy your Lambda function code as a container image. AWS provides the following resources to help you build a container image for your Python function:

What’s In This Document

🚀 Create Docker image container

Create an image from AWS base image

🚀 Create `app.py` as lambda handler

🚀 Build and push the image to ECR

🚀 Create Lambda container image

🚀 Test the lambda function

1. Invoke lambda function

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Create an image from AWS base image

🚀 Create app.py as lambda handler

🚀 Build and push the image to ECR

🚀 Create Lambda container image

🚀 Test the lambda function

1. Invoke lambda function

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