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Getting Started Guide

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Prerequisites

  • Update a submodule of nginx-aws-signature library

    make submodule

  • Create a AWS Lambda Function

  • Implement and devploy a AWS Lambda Function

  • Optional: Download NGINX Plus license files, and copy them to ./common/etc/ssl/

    nginx-repo.crt
nginx-repo.key

    Note: This step is only required when running nginx-lambda-gateway using NGINX Plus.

  • Configure environment variables in settings.env

    Name Required? Allowed Values Default Description
    LAMBDA_REGION Yes ${AWS_REGION} Lambda region whose servers you want to send the requests
    LAMBDA_SERVER_PROTO Yes http, https https Protocol to connect to Lambda server
    LAMBDA_SERVER Yes lambda.${AWS_REGION}.amazonaws.com Lambda host to connect to
    LAMBDA_SERVER_PORT Yes 443 SSL/TLS port to connect to
    AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID No ${AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID} AWS access key associated with an IAM account
    AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY No ${AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY} AWS secret key associated with the access key
    AWS_SESSION_TOKEN No ${AWS_SESSION_TOKEN} AWS session token value that is required if you are using temporary security credentials
    DEBUG No true, false false Flag enabling AWS signatures debug output
    HEADER_PREFIXES_TO_STRIP No true, false false A list of HTTP header prefixes that exclude headers client responses. List should be specified in lower-case and a semicolon (;) should be used to as a deliminator between values. For example: x-amz-;x-something-

    Note:

    • Define the following environment variables in your machine when using the above default values. e.g.: AWS_REGION, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SESSION_TOKEN in ~/.bash_profile.
    • AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SESSION_TOKEN are only used to configure the gateway when running as a Container or as a Systemd service.

  • Optional: Edit nginx configuration

    Skip this step when using 80 port and one AWS region for multiple AWS Lambda Function ARNs. Otherwise, configure the /etc/nginx/conf.d/nginx_lambda_gateway.conf:

    map $request_uri $lambda_host {
  # Use default host ($lambdaFunctionARNHost) when using one region for
  # multiple Lambda Function ARNs per NGINX Lambda Gateway.
  default $lambdaFunctionARNHost;

  # Add default host per endpoint when using multiple regions for
  # multiple Lambda Function ARNs per NGINX Lambda Gateway.
  # '/2015-03-31/functions/foo/invocations' $lambdaFunctionARNHost;

  # Add the following host with ediging {url_id} and {aws-region} per endpoint
  # when using AWS Lambda Function URL
  # '/bar' {url-id}.lambda-url.{aws-region}.on.aws;
}

map $request_uri $lambda_url {
  # Use default Lambda server URL when using AWS Lambda Function ARN.
  default  $lambdaProto://$lambda_host:$lambdaPort;

  # Add Lambda server URL per endpoint when using AWS Lambda Function URL.
  # '/bar' $lambdaProto://$lambda_host/;
}

server {
  include "serverless/lambda_ngx_apis.conf";
  listen 80; # Use SSL/TLS in production

  # Use this config when using a proxy to all AWS Lambda Function ARNs.
  location / {
      auth_request /aws/credentials/retrieval;
      js_content lambdagateway.redirectToLambdaFunctionARN;
  }

  # Add this config per endpoint when using a proxy to a Lambda Function ARN.
  # - arn:aws:lambda:{aws-region}:{account-id}:function:foo
  # location /2015-03-31/functions/foo/invocations {
  #     auth_request /aws/credentials/retrieval;
  #     js_content lambdagateway.redirectToLambdaFunctionARN;
  # }

  # Add this config per endpoint when using a proxy to a Lambda Function URL.
  # - https://{url-id}.lambda-url.{aws-region}.on.aws/
  # location /bar {
  #     auth_request /aws/credentials/retrieval;
  #     js_content lambdagateway.redirectToLambdaFunctionURL;
  # }

  # Enable when debugging is needed
  # error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log  debug; # Reduce severity level as required
  # access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
}

Quick Starter: Running in Your Laptop

  • Install and run Docker

  • Start a NGINX Lambda Gateway container

    make start

  • Check if a NGINX Lambda Gateway container is running

    make watch

  • Invoke a Lambda Function ARN via NGINX Lambda Gateway

    curl --location 'http://localhost/2015-03-31/functions/foo/invocations' \
     --header 'Content-Type: application/json'                          \
     --data '{ 
         "message": "This is a sample message" 
     }'

  • Stop a NGINX Lambda Gateway container

    make down

  • Clean a NGINX Lambda Gateway container image

    make clean

Running as a Systemd Service

  • TBD

Running in Containers

  • TBD

Running Using AWS Instance Profile Credentials

  • TBD

Troubleshooting

  • TBD