Monitoring the health of your canary allows CodeDeploy to make a decision to whether a rollback is needed or not. If any of the CloudWatch Alarms specified gets to ALARM status, CodeDeploy rollsback the deployment automatically.
Let’s break the Lambda function on purpose so that the CanaryErrorsAlarm gets triggered during deployment. Update the lambda code in sam-app/src/HelloWorld/Function.cs to throw an error on every invocation, like this:
public async Task<APIGatewayProxyResponse> FunctionHandler(APIGatewayProxyRequest apigProxyEvent, ILambdaContext context)
{
if (System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME") == null)
throw new System.Exception("This will cause a deployment rollback");
Note: This error condition is not covered by the unit tests, so the build will not fail.
In the terminal, run the following commands to build the project.
cd ~/environment/sam-app/src/HelloWorld
dotnet build
In the terminal, run the following commands from the root directory of your sam-app project.
cd ~/environment/sam-app
git add .
git commit -m "Breaking the lambda function on purpose"
git push