cobalt12345 / alice-cities-game

An example of Yandex Alice skill with a back-end deployed to the AWS. It exposes how to deploy back-end either on Lambda function or on Elastic Beanstalk.

Repository description

Current repository contains short videos that demonstrate how to deploy Yandex Alice Skill back-end to the AWS environment. Here are considered two options:

1. Lambda Function back-end
2. Elastic Beanstalk

Other options can also be used for the purpose - EC2, EKS, ECS etc. See the Yandex documentation for more details (in Russian): https://yandex.ru/dev/dialogs/alice/doc/deploy-aws.html

Lambda Function back-end

Proceed with the following steps to create a back-end:

1. Login to AWS Management Console and open AWS Lambda homepage.
2. Create a new environment using Node.js runtime.
   Chose option 'Enable function URL' without authorization (NONE).
3. Place the code from ./lambda/alice-cities-game-skill-handler.js to the code editor; deploy & build.

Elastic Beanstalk back-end

This way is much longer at it requires configuring communication over HTTPS protocol. In its turn, it requires any valid issued or self-signed certificate.

1. Open Elastic Beanstalk page and create a new environment using Node.js. Upload application code from ./beanstalk/cloud.zip.
2. Open AWS Certificate Manager page and request a new certificate if needed. You are allowed to request certificates only for domains you own.
   You cannot request a certificate for *.elasticbeanstalk.com
3. Create an alias resource record (A) for your domain on Route 53 page. This record links your domain name with Elastic Beanstalk application.

Video Manuals

Folder ./video/ contains provides video files containing detailed instructions.