[Help-glpk] AWS Lambda installation

[Thomas Harvey]

I recently needed to deploy an LP solver to AWS Lambda (using the python Pulp package) and encountered the issue that there were no solvers installed on Amazon Linux by default. 

AWS recently announced “layers” for lambda which ease the installation of shared objects and other third party code so I’ve made use of that to build https://github.com/tomharvey/glpk-lambda-layer

Hopefully this can be of use to anyone who needs to install glpk on lambda.

Any feedback is welcome.

Tom