Terraform support for job templates and output presets of AWS Elemental MediaConvert
AWS Elemental MediaConvert is a media transcoding service of AWS. For supporting vast VOD service, MediaConvert is very useful and reliable. Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool which supports multiple Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP. Unfortunately due to a lot of configurations of MediaConvert, terraform does not support MediaConvert resource and settings management yet. In this tutorial, we are going to take a look at how can we achieve this. MediaConvert Job Templates The job template is a part of...
A journey to AWS Lambda integration testing with Python, Localstack, and Terraform
To start with unit testing for AWS Lambda, we can just choose a testing framework and start writing our beautiful unit tests. For testing AWS services we also can use some mock tools like moto. But what about integration testing? A solution may be to deploy with the Continuous Deployment tool and run some test code against real AWS services. But there are some problems: It takes more time to deploy every timeRunning test code against AWS takes more timeIncreases the AWS bills So...
Deal with the change of field data type of PynamoDB, an ORM of DynamoDB
PynamoDB, with a Python interface, is a great ORM for AWS DynamoDB. DynamoDB is a NoSQL database with scalability and security and it has awesome API and SDKs. PynamoDB wraps the underneath APIs of DynamoDB and gives a beautiful pythonic way to use DynamoDB. In real-world our DB fields are not constant. It can change with the requirements update of our project. The hard part is when you have to maintain the old and new features. For example, a field data type can change from String to...
Automate python libraries deployment at AWS Lambda layer from Pipfile with Terraform
AWS Lambda, a part of Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a serverless computing service that works as FaaS (Function as a Service). A FaaS is a service which provides users to develop and manage application service without thinking about infrastructure. Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool which is developed by Hasi Corp to manage resources of cloud services like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc. It is open-source and developed by golang. It is always challenging to zip the codes and upload them...
