Latex TeX Live for AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda imposes a 50MB limit on .zip deployment archives. To reduce the size of Tex Live, most optional packages have been disabled in texlive.profile. If you require additional packages you will have to modify the Dockerfile to add the required packages to the tlmgr install list.

Prerequisites

• Julia 0.6.2: https://julialang.org/downloads/
• Docker Community Edition: https://www.docker.com/community-edition

Installation

Download this repository:

git clone https://github.com/samoconnor/lambdalatex.git

Configure AWS Credentials environment variables for your AWS account:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIAXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=ap-southeast-2

Run the build script:

julia make.jl

The build script will:

• Create a local docker image octech/lambdalatex containing a small Tex Live installation.
• Package the Tex Live installation into a latexlambda.zip file.
• Deploy the .zip as an AWS Lambda Function named "latex".
• Invoke the Lambda Function, passing test_input.tex as input and saving the output to test_output_lambda.pdf

Interface

The input to the "latex" lambda function is a base-64 encoded .ZIP file containing document.tex and any required supporting files (images etc).

{
  "input": "JVBERi0xLjUKJdD ...",
}

The output contains a base64 encoded PDF file and debug messages:

{
  "output": "JVBERi0xLjUKJdD ...",
  "stdout": "This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 ..."
}

Use

Using the AWS CLI:

$ aws lambda invoke --function-name latex --payload "{
      \"input\": \"$(base64 < input.zip)\"
    }" output.json
$ cat output.json

Using Julia:

using AWSLambda
using InfoZIP

z = base64encode(create_zip("document.tex" =>
                            """
                            \\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper]{article}
                            \\begin{document}
                            Hello World!
                            \\end{document}
                            """))

out = invoke_lambda("latex"; input=z)
write("test_output_lambda.pdf", base64decode(out[:output]))
write("test_output_lambda.stdout", out[:stdout])