JetBrains/kotless

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Kotless is a Kotlin serverless framework that generates Terraform deployment code directly from application code, supporting its own DSL as well as introspection of Ktor and Spring Boot applications. It ships as a Gradle plugin that deploys web applications to AWS Lambda and Azure serverless platforms and supports local emulation and IDE debugging.

Use cases

• deploy a Kotlin web app to AWS Lambda without writing Terraform
• convert an existing Ktor application into a serverless deployment
• run Spring Boot apps as serverless functions on AWS or Azure
• generate Terraform code from Kotlin application code
• locally emulate AWS environment for serverless debugging
• define scheduled events and routing with annotations for serverless apps

When to choose

• you write Kotlin and want one-button serverless deployment to AWS or Azure
• you have existing Ktor or Spring Boot apps you want to run serverlessly
• you want Terraform generated automatically from your application code
• you prefer deployment integrated into your Gradle build

When to avoid

• you deploy to platforms other than AWS or Azure
• your project is not on the JVM or does not use Gradle
• you need a framework with frequent updates and a large community
• you want full manual control over your Terraform infrastructure code

Facets

framework · maturity maintenance

web-framework deployment infrastructure-as-code serverless routing cli web-development cloud-computing backend infrastructure-as-code jvm cloud kotlin serverless faas aws-lambda azure-functions terraform-generation ktor spring-boot gradle-plugin devops gradle

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