Running Ansible in aws lambda

Question

I would like to run an ansible playbook in aws lambda, I have created a custom image for this and when I was able to final trigger the function, I am getting error like

> [ERROR] AnsibleError: Unable to use multiprocessing, this is normally caused by lack of access to /dev/shm: [Errno 38] Function not implemented

ansible uses python multiprocessing for it task queue manager and it uses multiprocessing queue, which uses /dev/shm to create the shared data between processes. Is there a way I can make it available for ansible ?

[code](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/executor/task_queue_manager.py#L151)

Answer

You will not get access to /dev/shm. You only have access to /tmp unless you configure access to EFS. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-runtime-environment.html and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/configuration-filesystem.html

Running Ansible in aws lambda

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