serverless-offline VS apprunner-roadmap

Using local emulators like sam local, serverless-offline, localstack, etc.

Hi, I'm the creator of serverless-offline (https://github.com/dherault/serverless-offline), a NPM package for local serveless development on AWS.

I'm building a cool product and intend to launch Q1 2023. To gain traction from my target customers, I plan to place a discrete ad at the launch of every serverless-offline instance.

Does it seem like an ok move to you? Or is it something that repels you?

Best,

As the creator of serverless-offline, I am well placed to tell you that this is the time-effective solution. Plus, it costs way less than other solutions at smaller scales. But, again, going Kubernetes or otherwise will be a problem for the future.

https://github.com/dherault/serverless-offline https://github.com/lambci/docker-lambda

What if I didn’t need to push code to AWS every time I wanted to test something? All heroes don’t wear capes. Like a knight in shining armor, Serverless Offline comes barging in to save the day! At least now I can test all my code locally before pushing it to AWS. That’s a relief.

With classic Express servers, you can use a simple node script to get the server up and running to test locally. Serverless wants to be run in the AWS ecosystem making it. Lucky for us, David Hérault has built and continues to maintain serverless-offline allowing us to emulate our functions locally before we deploy.

With the serverless offline plugin you can speed up local dev is by emulating AWS lambda and API Gateway locally when developing your Serverless project.

Those mocks are by definition not real services so there are some behavior differences between the local environment and the cloud provider. For example, AWS API Gateway emulated by serverless-offline doesn't handle VTL locally the same as AWS does.

serverless-offline (https://github.com/dherault/serverless-offline) is a great tool to use for local development of serverless applications.

It's not a complete mirror image of what you get but it's close enough in my experience.

Examples for products in this category are: Google Cloud Run, AWS App Runner, Azure Container Apps. Each has different scalability, cost, and integration trade-offs.

The deployment failed, and there were no logs available to help me debug the issue. There's an open issue on GitHub that has been around for over a year, but there doesn't seem to be a solution in sight.

If you're looking for something simple, that you can onboard to relatively quickly, that doesn't require a lot of oversight, consider App Runner, https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/. EKS and Kubernetes are extremely powerful and flexible, but they come a fair amount of complexity. If you don't care about the orchestrator (or running your application in another cloud), try App Runner.

The reader will learn how to create a web application firewall with AWS WAF and AWS App Runner as a web application. AWS App Runner is an AWS service that deploys web applications or API using Amazon ECR or GitHub only. While AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) is an AWS service that can protect the web application.

Yes, exactly. That's the problem. I found the issue here.

I wonder what the aversion is to using a plain old server / vps. It's really not that difficult to deploy nowadays [0][1][2][3] and I'd rather get an $8 bill every month as insurance than ever worry about shit like OP just went through. It'll probably be more performant anyway due to cold starts and "edge" still having to hit us-east-1 for data.. cache your static files with Cloud Flare/Front. People are always surprised by how much traffic a single VPS can take[4] and believe it all has to be serverless to be web scale. I believe HN still runs on a single core or something.

There's a ton of places to get cloud credits as well, too many to link, so just Bing™ it

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/v2/docs/aws-cdk-lib.aws_...

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/

[2] https://cloud.google.com/run

[3] https://render.com/

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34676186

AWS AppRunner could do more or less everything. You'd have to build a container image yourself, since AppRunner does not have C++ support for the "Code-based" service, but building a container really isn't more complex than installing that bare metal server. (Really, pick an OS, install dependencies, copy your code, start a service. That is all.)

App Runner