Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin

Deploying the Lambda function

We will package the application as a .jar file and upload it to the AWS web console. To do so, we use the following command:

./gradlew clean jar

Note that there are more sophisticated methods for deploying a Lambda function to the AWS environment. We will explore using tools like SAM and aws-cli later on. This section is just to familiarize the reader with the basics of the web console.

This will yield a greeter-service.jar in the build/libs directory. Depending on the choice of build tool, the location and artifact name may vary. The crux is that this is the package that can be deployed to the AWS environment.

The preceding command is for executing the Gradle build on a Unix machine. It is a different command ...