Deploying REST Services with Chalice for AWS

Course details

Serverless architectures are growing in popularity due to their low cost and promises of hands-off configuration. Chalice, a microframework for writing serverless Python apps for Amazon Web Services (AWS), is one of the easiest ways to develop and deploy serverless applications. This course explains how to leverage Chalice specifically for deploying serverless REST services. Learn how to implement common REST components, add authentication, and use Cognito for integrating a front-end app and adding sign-up and sign-in features. Instructor Larry Ogrodnek also explains how to set up advanced options such as IAM policy generation and SAM deployment, and how to perform testing of your service. Finally, learn how to set up a continuous deployment pipeline that takes advantage of everything Chalice has to offer.

Learning objectives
Serverless components for REST services
Creating your first Chalice app
Routing requests
Customizing responses
Implementing basic authentication
Integrating Cognito
Setting up custom policies
Splitting up an app
Writing and running tests
Creating a CD pipeline with CodePipeline

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Develop and deploy serverless apps
02 - Course overview

1. What Is Serverless

03 - Serverless overview and concepts
04 - Common serverless architectures
05 - Serverless components for REST services

2. Run and Deploy Your First App with Chalice

06 - What is Chalice
07 - Chalice installation and setup
08 - Create and run your first app
09 - Deploying, running, and logging in AWS

3. REST Basics with Chalice

10 - Starting a to-do API
11 - Request routing
12 - Request metadata
13 - Error messages
14 - Customizing responses
15 - CORS support

4. Authentication

16 - Authentication options
17 - Implementing basic auth
18 - Integrating basic auth
19 - API keys

5. Cognito Integration

20 - Cognito and web app setup
21 - Chalice configuration
22 - Front-end integration
23 - Testing it out

6. Advanced Deployment

24 - Policy generation
25 - Custom policies
26 - Environment variables
27 - Splitting up your application
28 - SAM deployment

7. Testing

29 - pytest setup
30 - Writing and running tests
31 - Chalice integration tests

8. Continuous Deployment via CodePipeline

32 - Continuous deployment with CodePipeline and CodeBuild
33 - CloudFormation template for CD
34 - Adding tests and other options

9. Other Chalice Features

35 - Periodic tasks
36 - S3 events

Conclusion

37 - Next steps