Serverless Plugin VPC

This plugin adds vpc support to your lambda functions.

Note: This plugin supports Serverless 0.4*

Installation

• make sure that aws and serverless are installed

• @see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/installing.html

• @see http://www.serverless.com/

• install this plugin to your projects node_modules folder

cd projectfolder
npm install serverless-plugin-vpc

• add the plugin to your s-project.json file

"plugins": [
    "serverless-plugin-vpc"
]

Run the Plugin

• the plugin uses a hook that is called after each deployment of a function
• you only have to deploy your function as usual sls function deploy
• add the following attribute to the s-function.json in your functions folder

  ...
  "vpcConfig": {
      "SubnetIds": [
          "subnet-abcda004"
      ],
      "SecurityGroupIds": [
          "sg-abcdc999"
      ]
  },
  ...

• Parameters:
• the provided "vpcConfig" object will be forwarded to the aws-sdk method updateFunctionConfiguration
• please check the docs for detailed descriptions http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/Lambda.html#updateFunctionConfiguration-property

modify IAM

• Check the role, that executes your Lambda.
• Normally you will receive an error:

Unhandled rejection AccessDeniedException: Your access has been denied by EC2, please make sure your function execution role have permission to CreateNetworkInterface. EC2 Error Code: UnauthorizedOperation. EC2 Error Message: You are not authorized to perform this operation.

• Please add the following role policy to the functions role:

{
  "Effect": "Allow",
  "Action": [
    "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
    "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
    "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface"
  ],
  "Resource": "*"
},