Prerequisites

HL requires the following tools to be available

• aws
• aws-sam - only for getting started guide
• docker
• babashka
• clojure

Quick install

:information_source: Docker should be installed separately

:information_source: Provided installation method requires brew

brew tap aws/tap && \
brew install clojure/tools/clojure borkdude/brew/babashka awscli aws-sam-cli 

AWS programmatic access credentials

1. Create an AWS account
2. Log in to your newly created account.
3. When in AWS Management Console. Click on your name on the top right.
4. Choose My Security Credentials sublink.
5. Clink on users, then select your username.
6. On user summary page click on Security credentials.
7. Under Access keys click Create access key
8. Copy both Access key ID & Secret access key

AWS CLI configuration

This part is necessary for HL to operate, since HL requires valid AWS profile to be set up.

:information_source: You can change the AWS profile that HL uses via HL_PROFILE environment variable

:information_source: Alternatively you can set both AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID & AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables, then switch HL_NO_PROFILE environment variable to true|1

1. Run the following command aws configure
2. On AWS Access Key ID field paste the copied Access key ID from the previous section.
3. On AWS Secret Access Key field paste the copied Secret access key from the previous section.
4. On Default region name field type any of the available AWS region to which the lambdas should be deployed.
5. On Default output format you can just press enter.
6. That's it. You can now start your journey with HL.