cdk-scheduler

A CDK construct to schedule events precisely ⏱

This construct enables to trigger an event at a given time on a serverless architecture.

You should use cdk-scheduler if you need to trigger an event at a precise time (down to the second) on your AWS application.

Install

To install with npm:

npm install cdk-scheduler

To install with yarn:

yarn add cdk-scheduler

Usage

Understand how the Scheduler works

cdk-scheduler is powered by SQS feature to delay events up to 15 minutes.

A lambda is scheduled to query a DynamoDB Table every 15 minutes, it pushes every events scheduled in the next 15 minutes to SQS with a delay corresponding the desired publication date.

Import and initialize Scheduler

Import the scheduler with :

import { Scheduler } from 'cdk-scheduler';

Then instantiate the scheduler :

const myScheduler = new Scheduler(app, id);

• app : Your CDK app (a Construct)
• id : The id/name of the scheduler (a string)

Write messages to the scheduler

Grant access to write a new message to the scheduler to the service(s) that will write to it. For example an API Integration or a lambda function :

myScheduler.schedulerTable.grantWriteData(newMessageLambda);

Messages can be posted to the scheduler by inserting a new row into the myScheduler.schedulerTable dynamoDB table. Parameters needed are:

• The name of the table to insert to : myScheduler.schedulerTable.tableName
• The partition key to use in this table : myScheduler.partitionKeyValue
• The sort key to use must be like "[timestamp]#[id]"
  • For example : "1653052252606#some-random-id" to schedule the event the 2022-05-20 at 13:10 UTC)
• The payload must be a mapping with any content

An example to create a new message from a lambda (with the appropriate values passed in the environment of the lambda) :

const dynamo = new DynamoDB({
  region: process.env.SCHEDULER_REGION,
});

dynamo.putItem({
  TableName: process.env.SCHEDULER_TABLE_NAME,
  Item: foo, //See last part for the payload format
});

Consume messages from the scheduler

The events can be consumed from the SQS Queue accessible at myScheduler.schedulingQueue. An example to trigger some lambda integration from the SQS :

const eventSource = new SqsEventSource(myScheduler.schedulingQueue);
triggeredEventHandler.addEventSource(eventSource);

Overview of the architecture

Payload format

For the scheduler to function properly the elements added to DynamoDB must have the following attributes: