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Rob Davis
Rob Davis

Reputation: 1319

Are Lambda Layers supported for Lambdas deployed to Greengrass?

I am trying to deploy a binary utility along with my Python-based lambda to a Greengrass group.

Using a layer seemed like a natural way to accomplish this. No errors are encountered during the deployment, but I cannot find any evidence that the layer exists on the edge device (Ubuntu 18.04).

I have also been unable to find any documentation that confirms or denies layers work with Greengrass.

To move forward, I am bundling the utility within the Lambda deployment package itself. This seems workable, but a layer seems more flexible...

Any clarification would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 588

Answers (1)

Sam Arai
Sam Arai

Reputation: 48

Just from my experience, no, Layers do not get pushed to the Greengrass host, so if your lambda function depends on libraries in a layer, it will fail to run, even though deployments will go through without issue.

AWS I believe is no longer updating Greengrass V1, as they're focused on Greengrass V2. So I doubt this issue will get addressed. As a workaround, package everything within the lambda function and don't use layers for those functions getting pushed to Greengrass.

Upvotes: 3

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