Hello World - Go Serverless endpoint in AWS

Golang Hello, World! app deployed with AWS Lambda function behind AWS API Gateway endpoint via Github Actions.

Table of contents

• Pre-requisites
• Local setup
• Manual deployment
• Cleanup
• Possible improvements
• License

Pre-requisites

• Node.js (version 20 or higher)
• Go (version 1.20 or higher)
• AWS CDK CLI installed and configured

Local setup

Install go package and cdk npm dependencies

$ make setup

To see all available commands go ahead and run

$ make help

setup       : Configure local environment
build       : Build Go package
zip         : Compress Go package for deployment
cdk-deploy  : Deploy latest version through CDK
cleanup     : Clean up cloud environment

Manual deployment

Build the go source code, compress it and deploy it

$ make cdk-deploy

• Take note of your new endpoint in the CDK Outputs section

Cleanup

$ make cdk-cleanup

Possible improvements not covered in this repo

• Pre-commit hooks for Go and Typescript code (linting, formatting, etc)
• Automated testing for Go and Typescript code
• Monitoring / Healthchecks
• Multi-environment setup
• Running CD pipeline only when relevant cdk/ or src/ contents change

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.