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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By : Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
Book Image

Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

By: Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

With this Learning Path, you’ll explore techniques to easily manage applications on the AWS cloud. You’ll begin with an introduction to serverless computing, its advantages, and the fundamentals of AWS. The following chapters will guide you on how to manage multiple accounts by setting up consolidated billing, enhancing your application delivery skills, with the latest AWS services such as CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline to provide continuous delivery and deployment, while also securing and monitoring your environment's workflow. It’ll also add to your understanding of the services AWS Lambda provides to developers. To refine your skills further, it demonstrates how to design, write, test, monitor, and troubleshoot Lambda functions. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • AWS Administration: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Yohan Wadia • AWS Administration Cookbook by Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan • Mastering AWS Lambda by Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 18. Extending AWS Lambda with External Services

In the previous chapter, we learned how to leverage and execute few Lambda functions based on triggers. However, one key aspect of that chapter was that the events were generated by sources or services residing within AWS. But, what if the triggers are generated by an external service provider or a third-party tool? Is Lambda even capable of handling such external services and events? Well, that's exactly what we are going to discuss and talk about in this chapter!

 

 

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Understanding the concept of Webhooks and how they can be used to trigger Lambda functions remotely
  • Triggering Lambda functions with the help of a few commonly used third-party tools and services, such as Git, Teamwork, and Slack
  • Triggering Lambda functions from an external application