Implementing Fauna as infrastructure as code with Serverless Framework

Benefits of IaC

• Decreased risks: Provisioning all of your infrastructures manually can be risky, especially if you have multiple dependencies among services. Complex deployment is prone to human errors. When you automate the process with IaC, you reduce these. Your infrastructure also becomes testable, and you can spin up multiple environments (exact replicas of production).
• Efficient software development lifecycle:  With IaC, infrastructure provisioning becomes more reliable and consistent. Developers get complete control of the infrastructure through code. Developers can script once and use that code multiple times, saving time and effort while keeping full control.
• Self-documenting and reduced administration: IaC is self-documenting. And it reduces administrative overhead, allowing your engineering efforts to be focused on new feature development.

Getting started with the Fauna Serverless Framework plugin

$ npm install @fauna-labs/serverless-fauna --save-dev

$ yarn add @fauna-labs/serverless-fauna

plugins:
  - "@fauna-labs/serverless-fauna"
fauna:
  client:
    secret: ${env:FAUNA_ROOT_KEY}
    # domain: db.fauna.com
    # port: 433
    # scheme: https

fauna:
  client:
    secret: ${env:FAUNA_ROOT_KEY}
    # domain: db.fauna.com
    # port: 433
    # scheme: https
  collections:
    Movies:
      name: Movies
      data:
        some_data_key: some_data_value

fauna:
  client:
    secret: ${env:FAUNA_ROOT_KEY}
    # domain: db.fauna.com
    # port: 433
    # scheme: https
  collections:
    Movies:
      name: Movies
      data:
        some_data_key: some_data_value

  functions:
    double:
      name: double
      body: ${file(./double.fql)}

  indexes:
    movies_by_type:
      name: movies_by_type
      source: ${self:fauna.collections.Movies.name}
      terms:
        fields: 
          - data.type