execute_lambda – Execute an AWS Lambda function

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

Synopsis

• This module executes AWS Lambda functions, allowing synchronous and asynchronous invocation.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• boto
• boto3
• python >= 2.6

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- execute_lambda:
    name: test-function
    # the payload is automatically serialized and sent to the function
    payload:
      foo: bar
      value: 8
  register: response

# Test that you have sufficient permissions to execute a Lambda function in
# another account
- execute_lambda:
    function_arn: arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function/some-function
    dry_run: true

- execute_lambda:
    name: test-function
    payload:
      foo: bar
      value: 8
    wait: true
    tail_log: true
  register: response
  # the response will have a `logs` key that will contain a log (up to 4KB) of the function execution in Lambda

# Pass the Lambda event payload as a json file.
- execute_lambda:
    name: test-function
    payload: "{{ lookup('file','lambda_event.json') }}"
  register: response

- execute_lambda:
    name: test-function
    version_qualifier: PRODUCTION

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Ryan Scott Brown (@ryansb) <ryansb@redhat.com>