AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) with LocalStack Lambda and Authorizer

Demonstrates how to use AWS SAM with LocalStack to create a Lambda function and an API Gateway with an authorizer.

Prerequisites

• A valid LocalStack for AWS license. Your license provides a LOCALSTACK_AUTH_TOKEN to activate LocalStack.
• lstk CLI.
• Docker
• make
• AWS CLI, required by lstk aws.
• Serverless Application Model, used via the lstk sam proxy.
• NodeJS 18.x
• ulid

Installing

Setup Serverless Application Model (SAM) on your local machine. We also recommend using NodeJS 14.x alongside a Node Version Manager to manage your NodeJS versions.

Start LocalStack with the LOCALSTACK_AUTH_TOKEN pre-configured:

export LOCALSTACK_AUTH_TOKEN=<your-auth-token>
make start

Optionally, create a file named .env-local to persist your token (it is ignored by gitignore):

export LOCALSTACK_AUTH_TOKEN=<your-auth-token>

Deploy the application

Let us first install the local dependencies:

make install

To setup the infrastructure on LocalStack, run:

make deploy

You will be prompted to enter a name for the stack. Use the default options for the prompts and fill Y (Yes) for the confirmation prompt. The stack will be created and the output will be printed to the console.

After deploying, you can invoke the Lambda function using the following commands:

make invoke-allow
make invoke-deny
make invoke-unauthorized
make invoke-none