I am getting started with writing an Alexa Skill. My skill requires uploading a .ZIP file as it includes the alexa-sdk dependency being stored in the node_modules folder.
Is there a more efficient way to upload a new version of my Lambda function and files from my local machine without zipping and manually uploading the same files over and over again? Some like git push or a different way to deploy via Terminal with a single command?
You can use the update-function-code CLI command.
Note that his operation must only be used on an existing Lambda function and cannot be used to update the function configuration.
To add to Khalid's answer, I recently created this rudimentary batch script to ease a particular lambda function's deployment. This example is for a NodeJS Lambda function which has it's dependencies located in the node_modules folder.
Have 7zip installed. Found here
Have it available in CMD (have it on system PATH variable) as explained here
Have your local aws-cli set up with valid credentials that have access to uploading to AWS Lambda.
rm -rf target
mkdir -p target
cp -r index.js package.json node_modules/ target/
pushd target
7z a zip_file_name.zip -r
popd
aws lambda update-function-code \
--function-name YOUR_FUNCTION_NAME \
--zip-file fileb://target/zip_file_name.zip \
--region us-east-1
My one-liner for bash:
zip -u f.zip f.py; aws lambda update-function-code --zip-file fileb://f.zip --function-name f
