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AWS Classic v6.42.0 published on Wednesday, Jun 26, 2024 by Pulumi

Video Thumbnailer Using AWS Fargate

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AWS Classic v6.42.0 published on Wednesday, Jun 26, 2024 by Pulumi

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    A video thumbnail extractor using serverless functions and containers.

    Loosely derived from the example at https://serverless.com/blog/serverless-application-for-long-running-process-fargate-lambda/.

    When a new video is uploaded, extract a thumbnail

    Prerequisites

    To run this example, make sure Docker is installed and running.

    Running the App

    Note: some values in this example will be different from run to run. These values are indicated with ***.

    1. Create a new stack:

      pulumi stack init thumbnailer-testing
      
    2. Configure Pulumi to use an AWS region where Fargate is supported, which is currently only available in us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2, and eu-west-1:

      pulumi config set aws:region us-west-2
      
    3. Restore NPM modules via npm install or yarn install.

    4. Preview and deploy the app via pulumi up. The preview will take some time, as it builds a Docker container. A total of 32 resources are created.

      $ pulumi up
      Previewing update of stack 'thumbnailer-testing'
      Previewing changes:
      
          Type                                Name                                   Plan          Info
      *   global                              global                                 no change     1 info message. info: Building container image 'pulum-
      +   pulumi:pulumi:Stack                       video-thumbnailer-thumbnailer-testing  create...     1 info message. info: Successfully tagged pulum-
      ...
      
      Do you want to perform this update? yes
      Updating stack 'thumbnailer-testing'
      Performing changes:
      
          Type                                Name                                   Status        Info
      *   global                              global                                 unchanged     1 info message. info: Building container image 'pulum-
      +   pulumi:pulumi:Stack                 video-thumbnailer-thumbnailer-testing  created      1 info message. info: 081c66fa4b0c: Pushed
      + ...
      ...
      
      info: 32 changes performed:
          + 32 resources created
      Update duration: ***
      
      Permalink: https://app.pulumi.com/***
      
    5. View the stack outputs:

      $ pulumi stack output
      Current stack outputs (1):
          OUTPUT                                           VALUE
          bucketName                                       ***
      
    6. Upload a video, embedding the timestamp in the filename:

      $ aws s3 cp ./sample/cat.mp4 s3://$(pulumi stack output bucketName)/cat_00-01.mp4
      upload: sample/cat.mp4 to s3://***/cat_00-01.mp4
      
    7. View the logs from both the Lambda function and the ECS task:

      $ pulumi logs -f
      Collecting logs for stack thumbnailer-testing since ***
      
      2018-05-25T12:57:26.326-07:00[                    onNewVideo] *** New video: file cat_00-01.mp4 was uploaded at 2018-05-25T19:57:25.507Z.
      2018-05-25T12:57:30.705-07:00[                    onNewVideo] Running thumbnailer task.
      2018-05-25T12:58:34.960-07:00[               ffmpegThumbTask] Starting ffmpeg task...
      2018-05-25T12:58:34.960-07:00[               ffmpegThumbTask] Copying video from S3 bucket-5ea6b28/cat_00-01.mp4 to cat_00-01.mp4...
      2018-05-25T12:58:37.267-07:00[               ffmpegThumbTask] Completed 256.0 KiB/666.5 KiB (2.5 MiB/s) with 1 fildownload: s3://bucket-5ea6b28/cat_00-01.mp4 to ./cat_00-01.mp4
      2018-05-25T12:58:40.306-07:00[               ffmpegThumbTask] Copying cat.jpg to S3 at bucket-5ea6b28/cat.jpg ...
      2018-05-25T12:58:43.034-07:00[               ffmpegThumbTask] Completed 86.6 KiB/86.6 KiB (619.7 KiB/s) with 1 filupload: ./cat.jpg to s3://bucket-5ea6b28/cat.jpg
      2018-05-25T12:58:43.758-07:00[                onNewThumbnail] *** New thumbnail: file cat.jpg was saved at 2018-05-25T19:58:43.028Z.
          ```
      
    8. Download the key frame:

      $ aws s3 cp s3://$(pulumi stack output bucketName)/cat.jpg .
      download: s3://***/cat.jpg to ./cat.jpg
      

    Clean up

    To clean up the resources, you will first need to clear the contents of the bucket.

    aws s3 rm s3://$(pulumi stack output bucketName) --recursive
    

    Then, run pulumi destroy and answer the confirmation question at the prompt.

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    AWS Classic v6.42.0 published on Wednesday, Jun 26, 2024 by Pulumi