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Routes in API Gateway

Demonstration of API Gateway routes

This example lives in the pulumi/examples repository. Check out just this directory to use it:

Get started with this example
git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/pulumi/examples pulumi-examples
git -C pulumi-examples sparse-checkout set aws-apigateway-go-routes
cd pulumi-examples/aws-apigateway-go-routes

This example create an API Gateway which responds to requests using different sources:

  1. Static files from a directory
  2. Lambda Function
  3. HTTP Proxy

When you’re finished, you’ll be familiar with how to configure routes in API Gateway using the RestAPI.

Prerequisites#

  1. Install Pulumi
  2. Configure AWS Credentials
  3. Install Go

Deploy the App#

Step 1: Create a directory and cd into it#

For Pulumi examples, we typically start by creating a directory and changing into it. Then, we create a new Pulumi project from a template. For example, azure-javascript.

  1. Install prerequisites:

    Terminal window
    go install
  2. Make Lambda handlers:

    Terminal window
    make
  3. Create a new Pulumi stack:

    Terminal window
    pulumi stack init
  4. Configure the AWS region to deploy into:

    Terminal window
    pulumi config set aws:region us-east-2
  5. Deploy the Pulumi stack:

    Terminal window
    pulumi up

Step 2: Test your API#

Use the example CURL commands to test the API responses.

Terminal window
curl -w '\n' "$(pulumi stack output url)static"
<h1>Hello Pulumi!</h1>
curl -w '\n' "$(pulumi stack output url)lambda"
Hello, API Gateway!
python3 -m webbrowser "$(pulumi stack output url)proxy"
# Opens a page looking like Google in your browser
curl -w '\n' "$(pulumi stack output url)swagger"
{
"uuid": ...
}
curl -w '\n' -H "Authorization: HEADER.PAYLOAD.SIGNATURE" "$(pulumi stack output url)cognito-authorized"
{"message":"Unauthorized"}
curl -w '\n' -H "Authorization: goodToken" "$(pulumi stack output url)lambda-authorized"
Hello, API Gateway!
curl -w '\n' -H "Authorization: badToken" "$(pulumi stack output url)lambda-authorized"
{"message": "404 Not found" }
curl -w '\n' "$(pulumi stack output url)lambda-authorized" # No token
{"message":"Unauthorized"}
curl -w '\n' "$(pulumi stack output swagger-url)"
{
"uuid": ...
}
curl -w '\n' -H "x-api-key: $(pulumi stack output apiKeyValue --show-secrets)" "$(pulumi stack output url)key-authorized"
Hello, API Gateway!

Testing a valid Cognito token is a little more involved.

  1. Create a random password

    Terminal window
    PASSWORD=$(curl -s https://www.passwordrandom.com/query?command=password&scheme=Llnn%23rrrrrrrrrr)
  2. Create a user

    Terminal window
    aws cognito-idp sign-up --region $(pulumi config get aws:region) --client-id $(pulumi stack output user-pool-client-id) --username "test@domain.example" --password "$PASSWORD"
  3. Confirm the user’s account

    Terminal window
    aws cognito-idp admin-confirm-sign-up --region $(pulumi config get aws:region) --user-pool-id $(pulumi stack output user-pool-id) --username "test@domain.example"
  4. Authenticate to create a new session:

    Terminal window
    TOKEN=$(aws cognito-idp admin-initiate-auth --region $(pulumi config get aws:region) --user-pool-id $(pulumi stack output user-pool-id) --client-id $(pulumi stack output user-pool-client-id) --auth-flow ADMIN_NO_SRP_AUTH --auth-parameters "{\"USERNAME\":\"test@domain.example\",\"PASSWORD\":\"$PASSWORD\"}")
  5. Perform authenticated request

    Terminal window
    curl -w '\n' -H "Authorization: $(echo $TOKEN | jq '.AuthenticationResult.IdToken' -r)" "$(pulumi stack output url)cognito-authorized"
    Hello, API Gateway!

Fetch and review the logs from the Lambda executions:

Terminal window
pulumi logs

Set Up Custom DNS#

Before you can set up a custom domain you must register a domain name with Route 53.

Configure the stack with your custom DNS information:

Terminal window
pulumi config set domain subdomain.acmecorp.example
pulumi config set dns-zone acmecorp.example

Deploy your stack:

Terminal window
pulumi up
...
Type Name Plan
pulumi:pulumi:Stack aws-apigateway-ts-routes-dev
+ ├─ pulumi:providers:aws usEast1 create
+ ├─ aws:acm:Certificate ssl-cert create
+ ├─ aws:route53:Record ssl-cert-validation-dns-record create
+ ├─ aws:acm:CertificateValidation ssl-cert-validation create
+ ├─ aws:apigateway:DomainName api-domain-name create
+ ├─ aws:route53:Record api-dns create
+ └─ aws:apigateway:BasePathMapping api-domain-mapping create

Test your API is now available on your custom domain:

Terminal window
curl -w '\n' "$(pulumi stack output customUrl)static"

Clean Up#

Once you’re finished experimenting, you can destroy your stack and remove it to avoid incurring any additional cost:

Terminal window
pulumi destroy
pulumi stack rm

Summary#

In this tutorial, you deployed an API with different route configurations. Now you can use these patterns to build real APIs which connect to other services.

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