lambda-web

Run Actix web, Rocket, Warp on AWS Lambda

Features

Web frameworks

Supported

• Actix Web 4.0.0-beta.6
• Rocket 0.5.0-rc.1
• Warp 0.3.1

AWS infrastructure

Supported

• API Gateway HTTP API with payload format version 2.0

Not supported

• API Gateway HTTP API with payload format version 1.0
• API Gateway REST API
• Application Load Balancer (ALB)

Example

Actix Web

Cargo.toml

[[bin]]
name = "bootstrap"
path = "src/main.rs"

[dependencies]
lambda-web = { version = "0.1.0", features=["actix4"] }

main.rs

use lambda_web::actix_web::{self, get, App, HttpServer, Responder};
use lambda_web::{is_running_on_lambda, run_actix_on_lambda, LambdaError};

#[get("/")]
async fn hello() -> impl Responder {
    format!("Hello")
}

#[actix_web::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(),LambdaError> {
    let factory = move || {
        App::new().service(hello)
    };

    if is_running_on_lambda() {
        // Run on AWS Lambda
        run_actix_on_lambda(factory).await?;
    } else {
        // Local server
        HttpServer::new(factory)
            .bind("127.0.0.1:8080")?
            .run()
            .await?;
    }
    Ok(())
}

Rocket

Cargo.toml

[[bin]]
name = "bootstrap"
path = "src/main.rs"

[dependencies]
lambda-web = { version = "0.1.2", features=["rocket05"] }
rocket = "0.5.0-rc.1"

main.rs

use rocket::{self, get, routes};
use lambda_web::{is_running_on_lambda, launch_rocket_on_lambda, LambdaError};

#[get("/hello/<name>/<age>")]
fn hello(name: &str, age: u8) -> String {
    format!("Hello, {} year old named {}!", age, name)
}

#[rocket::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), LambdaError> {
    let rocket = rocket::build().mount("/", routes![hello]);
    if is_running_on_lambda() {
        // Launch on AWS Lambda
        launch_rocket_on_lambda(rocket).await?;
    } else {
        // Launch local server
        rocket.launch().await?;
    }
    Ok(())
}

Warp

Cargo.toml

[[bin]]
name = "bootstrap"
path = "src/main.rs"

[dependencies]
lambda-web = { version = "0.1.1", features=["warp03"] }
tokio = { version = "1" }

main.rs

use lambda_web::warp::{self, Filter};
use lambda_web::{is_running_on_lambda, run_warp_on_lambda, LambdaError};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), LambdaError> {
    // GET /hello/warp => 200 OK with body "Hello, warp!"
    let hello = warp::path!("hello" / String).map(|name| format!("Hello, {}", name));

    if is_running_on_lambda() {
        // Run on AWS Lambda
        run_warp_on_lambda(warp::service(hello)).await?;
    } else {
        // Run local server
        warp::serve(hello).run(([127, 0, 0, 1], 8080)).await;
    }
    Ok(())
}

Create deploy ZIP file

Currentry (Jun 2021), we have two options to run Rust on AWS Lambda: Amazon Linux 2 custom runtime or Docker container image.

I recommend Amazon Linux 2 custom runtime deploy because it's faster cold start time than container image.

To build Amazon Linux 2 compatible binary, it's better to build inside container. First, build Amazon Linux 2 container with Rust toolchain. This repository contains sample Dockerfile .

$ git clone https://github.com/hanabu/lambda-web
...
$ docker build -t lambda_builder lambda-web/docker
...

or
$ buildah bud -t lambda_builder lambda-web/docker
...

Once you get lambda_builder image, then build your code with Amazon Linux.

$ cd your_app_crate_dir
$ docker run -it --rm -v ~/.cargo/registry:/root/.cargo/registry:z -v .:/build:z lambda_builder
...

or
$ podman run -it --rm -v ~/.cargo/registry:/root/.cargo/registry:z -v .:/build:z lambda_builder
...

Then, you get deploy ZIP package in your_app_crate_dir/target_lambda/deploy.zip .

Make sure, your Cargo.toml has bootstrap binary name.

[[bin]]
name = "bootstrap"
path = "src/main.rs"

Setup AWS Lambda & API gateway

Lambda

• Create lambda function with provided.al2 custom runtime. Choose "Provide your own bootstrap on Amazon Linux 2" .
• Upload ZIP file described above.
• IAM role, memory settings, etc. are as your demands.
  As sample code above consumes only 30MB of memory, many simple Rust app can fit in 128MB setting.

API Gateway

• Create HTTP API
• Create single route "$default" and attach Lambda integration. Make sure, payload format version is "2.0"