PythonFunction additional build options

[CoreOxide]

Description

Today, CDK deploy uses docker as it's backend to collect and install dependencies. I'm proposing a way to do that without using Docker. It will also allow building for different OS targets and Lambda runtimes.

There are 2 ways to build without docker:

• Using native dependency resolution using PIP flags.
• Using AWS CloudShell (most useful for building Lambda Layers).

As @evgenyka suggested in #579, I want to inherit from PythonFunction and intorucde building backend options to the new class.

Looking for your approval before going forward.

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[ran-isenberg]

nice one, would really help me to remove docker dependency in my open source project that use cdk and Lambda. @evgenyka please approve this approach :)

[alexpulver]

The aws-cdk-lib.aws_lambda.Function construct allows to perform local bundling, see the "Building locally" section in Building, bundling, and deploying applications with the AWS CDK blog post.

@evgenyka is there a reason aws-cdk.aws-lambda-python-alpha.PythonFunction can't support local bundling?

[ran-isenberg]

@evgenyka bump? :)

[CoreOxide]

@evgenyka pls advise 👍

[evgenyka]

@alexpulver Local bundling supported in Go and NodeJS (esbuild) at the moment, @CoreOxide similar to: https://github.com/1davidmichael/cdk-local-bundling-example? You can get your PR against https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/18290

[CoreOxide]

@evgenyka it is similar, however my solution is more robust. my code will allow building for Lambda natively from MacOS and Windows, installing the correct packages for Linux instead of the OS you're running on (which is what will happen here -> https://github.com/1davidmichael/cdk-local-bundling-example).

I will open a PR under https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/18290.