Running GAM in AWS Lambda function

[Marco Berger]

Hi everyone,

has anybody ever tried to run GAM in an AWS Lambda function and can share some experiences? I am currently trying to include GAM in a Lambda deployment.

Two specific issues arise:

1) GAM seems to need env variables(like 'TERM') to be set, which is not given in AWS Lamba. Can I somehow get to know which env variables are needed or/and if they can be substituted somehow?

2) Is there a way to go through the oAuth process in a silent way - so that I don't need any browser and user interaction?

Thanks,
Marco

[Rob Barnes]

I was just thinking today how this would be really cool to do.  I'm not sure how it would be done, but if you ever figure it out, I would love to know as well!

[+KimNilsson]

Do the oauth process elsewhere, and include the ouath2.txt file with your json fiiles.

[Tiago Jobling]

Did anyone ever get this to work?

Thanks in advance!

[Rance Hall]

I usually set this in gam.cfg

 

no_browser = true

 

Then you can do the web-based flows on another machine with guidance provided by gam along the way.

 

R

 

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Bue which files do you need to include in the AWS Lambda function? How do you mimic oauth2.txt (and remaining files) usage in an ephemeral environment?

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[Rance Hall]

To my knowledge you don’t exactly.

 

Gam is designed to be installed on a google cloud console or similar machine that may not be “up” all the time but that the “state” is the same as when you left it.

 

If that isn’t true for you, then you are gonna have a difficult time.

 

I can’t address your Lambda question directly as I am not AWS user and haven’t tried to do this.

 

But I can say that GAM does write timestamps to its config file and its whole ~/.gam config directory is a requirement for usage including the python scripts themselves.

 

In a docker container I would volume mount the ~/.gam folder in its entirety.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Rance

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