Apprunner

…With the managed runtime for Go

In this blog post you will learn how to run a Go application to AWS App Runner using the Go platform runtime. You will start with an existing Go application on GitHub and deploy it to AWS App Runner. The application is based on the URL shortener application (with some changes) that persists data in DynamoDB.

What’s covered?

• Prerequisites
• Create a GitHub repo for the URL shortener application
• Create a DynamoDB table to store URL information
• Create an IAM role with DynamoDB specific permissions
• Deploy the application to AWS App Runner
• Verify URL shortener functionality
• Clean up
• Conclusion

AWS App Runner can create and manage services based on two types of service sources:

A previous blog post covered how to deploy a Go Lambda function and trigger it in response to events sent to a topic in a MSK Serverless cluster.

This blog will take it a notch further.

• The solution consists of a MSK Serverless cluster, a producer application on AWS App Runner and a consumer application in Kubernetes (EKS) persisting data to DynamoDB.
• The core components (MSK cluster, EKS and DynamoDB) and the producer application will be provisioned using Infrastructure-as-code with AWS CDK.
• Since the consumer application on EKS will interact with both MSK and DynamoDB, you will also need to configure appropriate IAM roles.

All the components in this solution have been written in Go.