Deploying Laravel Code into AWS Lambda

 

AWS Lambda does not directly support the PHP runtime. When creating an AWS Lambda function using PHP code, we must use containerization or the Bref package. In this article, I'll show you how I used the bref package to deploy Laravel API services to AWS Lambda function.

We must first install the serverless framework. The serverless framework will aid in the development and deployment of code to AWS Lambda. This framework is a Node.js-based free and open-source web framework. The Serverless Framework is a command-line tool that deploys both your code and the cloud infrastructure required to create a plethora of serverless application use cases using simple and understandable YAML syntax.

Step 1: npm install -g serverless

If you have a Laravel project, please get into the root directly, or else create a new project using the following command:

Step 2: composers create-project laravel/laravel example-app

In the root of the Laravel project. Install the Laravel packages using the following command:

Step 3

composer require bref/bref bref/laravel-bridge --with-all-dependencies

If you get an error message about dependencies, use the following command:

composer require bref/bref bref/laravel-bridge --update-with-dependencies

 

Now you have to create a serverless.yaml file. To generate a YAML file, use the following command:

Step 4

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=serverless-config

After this command, you can see a serverless.yaml file.

As follows

service: <<Name of the service you want>>

provider:

    name: aws

    # The AWS region in which to deploy (us-east-1 is the default)

    region: eu-west-1

    # Environment variables

    environment:

        APP_ENV: local # Or use ${sls:stage} if you want the environment to match the stage

package:

    # Files and directories to exclude from deployment

    patterns:

        - '!node_modules/**'

        - '!public/storage'

        - '!resources/assets/**'

        - '!storage/**'

        - '!tests/**'

 

functions:

    # This function runs the Laravel website/API

    web:

        handler: public/index.php

        runtime: php-81-fpm

        timeout: 28 # in seconds (API Gateway has a timeout of 29 seconds)

        events:

            - httpApi: '*'

 

    # This function lets us run artisan commands in Lambda

    artisan:

        handler: artisan

        runtime: php-81-console

        timeout: 720 # in seconds

        # Uncomment to also run the scheduler every minute

        #events:

        #    - schedule:

        #          rate: rate(1 minute)

        #          input: '"schedule:run"'

 

plugins:

    # We need to include the Bref plugin

    - ./vendor/bref/bref

 

The final step is to deploy this into lambda. To deploy Lambda code, you must first have an AWS access key and a secret key with appropriate permissions. To save that configuration in your local machine, use the following command.Step4

Step 5

serverless config credentials --provider aws --key <key> --secret <secret>

Finally, run the following command to deploy

Step 6

Serverless deploy