To use this function, activate by triggering a CloudWatch event. The function will check by pairs SQS queue that you want an autoscale group to scale up.

pairs = [{'queue_name': 'sqs_q1', 'autoscale_group': 'autoscale_group1'},
         {'queue_name': 'sqs_q2', 'autoscale_group': 'autoscale_group2'}]

When new SQS count >= Auto scale desired Count it will set a new desired count for the autoscale group

It will consider the MaxSize of the auto scale group as the max size regardless the amount of messages in the queue

Make sure to have aws cli installed

brew update
brew install awscli
aws configure (enter your aws credentials)

To start using the project run Install pip on your mac and virtualenv

sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install virtualenv

Create virtual env in your project

virtualenv venv

Activate virtualenv folder that just was created

. ./venv/bin/activate

To build a packed lambda zip file run

make install
make build

To deploy the lambda zip file to AWS run

make deploy

To update github

make git_update

Default logging is DEBUG. To modify it, add to lambda LOG_LEVEL environment variable with the level needed.