Working AWS Lambda template with Quarto?

[asiddiqi16]

Description

Hi,

I am trying to run quarto in an AWS Lambda by setting up a docker container image. I noted there were some discussions about this here:
https://github.com/orgs/quarto-dev/discussions/1579

Has anyone come up with a working template for running quarto in AWS lambda? I know there are some permissions issues, but I can't seem to run quarto without running as a root user in the container.

Thanks, any help would be appreciated.

Ariba

[mcanouil]

Unfortunately, with this little information, it's unlikely someone can help you.

Please elaborate on your setup, such as system, Docker image, etc.

As far as I know, AWS Lambda supports Docker, so you should be able to use that (if not already the case) to render anything.

[asiddiqi16]

Hi,

Here are some more details.

I want to write a Dockerfile that will have quarto, R and python installed in order to generate some pdf reports based on an s3 object that is uploaded on an AWS S3 bucket.
My intention is to use the lambda as container architecture in AWS, following their guidelines here:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/images-create.html

There are a few things I am struggling with:
quarto writes cache files, and I have read this discussion: https://github.com/orgs/quarto-dev/discussions/1579 that says we need to set the environment variables to "tmp".
But because some of the binaries like tinytex are stored under root (see discussion here #11800), am not sure if the lambda will have sufficient permissions to run quarto to render pdfs.

I was wondering if anyone has implemented a dockerfile to render pdfs using quarto in a lambda?

Away from my work desk at the moment, will comment with a draft dockerfile tomorrow.

[mcanouil]

Install TinyTex manually wherever you want. See TinyTex documentation (https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex-releases?tab=readme-ov-file#installation, note that you actually need to read the bash install script here).

Edit: there is also a FAQ (https://yihui.org/tinytex/faq/)

[asiddiqi16]

I have reviewed TinyTex's documentation. I suspect this is related to how their install works. For now, I will close this comment and post an issue on their github if needed.