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Backstage AWS Lambda Plugin

See AWS Lambda functions for your components in Backstage

Created by Roadie

A screenshot of the AWS Lambda. It is showing a AWS Lambda function details for a sample component.

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Installation steps

Before you start please make sure that you installed @roadiehq/backstage-plugin-aws-auth plugin first.

Install the plugin into Backstage.

yarn add @roadiehq/backstage-plugin-aws-lambda

Add Card to your Backstage catalog pages.

// packages/app/src/components/catalog/EntityPage.tsx
import {
  EntityAWSLambdaOverviewCard,
  isAWSLambdaAvailable,
} from '@roadiehq/backstage-plugin-aws-lambda';
// ...
const OverviewContent = ({ entity }: { entity: Entity }) => (
  <Grid container spacing={3} alignItems="stretch">
    <EntitySwitch>
      <EntitySwitch.Case if={isAWSLambdaAvailable}>
        <Grid item md={6}>
          <EntityAWSLambdaOverviewCard />
        </Grid>
      </EntitySwitch.Case>
      {/*...*/}
    </EntitySwitch>
    {/*...*/}
  </Grid>
);

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Things to know

Authentication

In order to perform requests to AWS lambda plugin you must install @roadiehq/backstage-plugin-aws-auth backend plugin.

Then ask backend for temporary credentials via /api/aws/credentials.

You can select what functions will be shown in the table using your yaml config file:

metadata:
  annotations:
    aws.com/lambda-function-name: HelloWorld
    aws.com/lambda-region: us-east-1

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