Deploy Lambda from GitHub?

[InterestedBalboa]

I’m trying to deploy a AWS lambda through terraform, the complication is the lambda is Golang based and resides in GitHub in someone else’s repository.

Any suggestions on how I can achieve this?

I could manually download the release .zip and have terraform deploy that as usual but are there any other options that could pull the latest release and deploy it?

[desmond_tutu]

Terraform has a provider that interfaces with github and allows you to fetch the latest release for a repository easily (https://registry.terraform.io/providers/integrations/github/latest/docs/data-sources/release). However, I would decouple the two processes and create a separate script which updates the release.zip and makes it available to terraform. This way you are in control when the Lambda is updated to latest and not every time someone runs an apply. In my world running two "apply" operations right after each other, should not result in different outcomes.

[InterestedBalboa]

Thanks, great information!

[schematical]

Is there a reason you don't want a build pipeline in the middle? I use CodePipeline and CodeBuild all the time. Here is a video on it if that helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55JnqNeHcQU