Upgrade NodeJS on CodeCatalyst action runners

Question

I needed to update CDK to get NodeJS > 16 on my lambda functions. Now the cdk actions won't work because the action runners are all NodeJS  16. Am I missing some way of upgrading NodeJS on the action runner?

Accepted Answer

I found a work around for this issue.  There's a version of aws-cdk-lib that will run on node 16 but supports creating node 18 lambdas. Here's the fix:
```
npm install aws-cdk-lib@2.51.0
```

Answer

setup-node action in your GitHub Actions workflow allows you to specify the Node.js version that you wish to run in your workflow.

```
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: actions/setup-node@v4
  with:
    node-version: '18' # Specify the Node.js version here
- run: npm install
- run: npm test
```

Answer

Hi Robert - I'm glad you were able to find an answer. Were you trying to interact with cdk via a build action? Or were you using the cdk-deploy action in CodeCatalyst? If you are using a build action we recently released a new runtime image (March-2024) that does have more up to date versions of certain tools.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codecatalyst/latest/userguide/build-images.html

It would also be good to know what CDK construct you are using to construct your Lambda functions.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codecatalyst/latest/userguide/build-images.html

It would also be good to know what CDK construct you are using to construct your Lambda functions.

Upgrade NodeJS on CodeCatalyst action runners

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