Deploy AWS Synthetics Canary using a local script

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

$ git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/pulumi/examples pulumi-examples
$ git -C pulumi-examples sparse-checkout set aws-ts-synthetics-canary
$ cd pulumi-examples/aws-ts-synthetics-canary

An example of deploying an AWS Synthetics Canary using a script stored locally.

This example does the following:

1. Zips up a colocated canary script.
2. Pushes the zip file to an S3 bucket.
3. Creates an IAM role and policy for the canary.
4. Deploys the canary.

The canary used in this example is a simple no-op script that writes a message. See Writing Canary Scripts for details regarding canary directory structure and naming conventions. There are some prebaked canary scripts for doing things like checking an API or a link that can be found on AWS.

Prerequisites#

1. Install Pulumi
2. Configure AWS credentials
3. Install Node.js

Deploying the example#

1. Create a new stack:

   pulumi stack init dev

2. Set the AWS region:

   pulumi config set aws:region us-east-1

3. Install dependencies:

   npm install

4. Run pulumi up to preview and deploy changes:

   pulumi up

   Previewing update (dev)
   ...
   
   Updating (dev)
   View Live: https://app.pulumi.com/acmecorp/aws-synthetics-canary/dev/updates/1
   
       Type                      Name                       Status
   +   pulumi:pulumi:Stack       aws-synthetics-canary-dev  created
   +   ├─ aws:s3:Bucket          canary-results             created
   +   ├─ aws:s3:Bucket          canary-scripts             created
   +   ├─ aws:iam:Role           canary-exec-role           created
   +   ├─ aws:iam:RolePolicy     canary-exec-policy         created
   +   ├─ aws:s3:BucketObjectv2  canary-simple-canary       created
   +   └─ aws:synthetics:Canary  canary-simple              created
   
   Outputs:
       canaryName   : "canary-simple-a4a3974"
       canaryNameArn: "arn:aws:synthetics:us-east-1:052848974346:canary:canary-simple-a4a3974"

Cleaning up#

Once you’re done, destroy the resources and remove the stack:

pulumi destroy
pulumi stack rm

Note: Until https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/19288 is addressed, the Canary’s lambda function and related layers are left after the stack is destroyed, so you will want to manually clean up these items.