Serverless Lifecycle Cheat Sheet

lifecycle-cheat-sheet.md

Serverless plugin author's cheat sheet

This cheat sheet provides a detailed overview of the exposed lifecycle events and available commands (and entrypoints) of the Serverless framework, that can be hooked by plugins (internal and external ones). The document is structured by the commands invoked by the user.

Lifecycle events are shown as the globally available outer events (all providers) and sub lifecycle events that are provider specific in the called order. Currently only the AWS provider is shown. If you have information about the other provider, please let me know and I will add the sub lifecycles accordingly.

The current event system can be improved in the future. Only package, deploy and info provide detailed event lifecycles for now, that make the plugin integration much more fine-grained.

Plugins can spawn any command or entrypoint with this.serverless.pluginManager.spawn() and invoke a sub lifecycle.

Lifecycle events / commands

package

package:cleanup

-> aws:common:validate:validate
-> aws:common:cleanupTempDir:cleanup

package:initialize

package:setupProviderConfiguration

package:createDeploymentArtifacts

package:compileFunctions

package:compileEvents

package:finalize

-> aws:package:finalize:mergeCustomProviderResources
-> aws:package:finalize:saveServiceState
-> aws:common:moveArtifactsToPackage:move

deploy

before:deploy:deploy

-> aws:common:validate:validate
-> aws:common:moveArtifactsToTemp:move

deploy:deploy

-> aws:deploy:deploy:createStack
-> aws:deploy:deploy:checkForChanges (1.17->)
-> aws:deploy:deploy:uploadArtifacts
-> aws:deploy:deploy:validateTemplate
-> aws:deploy:deploy:updateStack

deploy:finalize

-> aws:deploy:finalize:cleanup

deploy function

deploy:function:initialize

deploy:function:packageFunction

-> package:function:package

deploy:function:deploy

-> aws:common:cleanupTempDir:cleanup

deploy list

deploy:list:log

info

info:info

-> aws:info:validate
-> aws:info:gatherData
-> aws:info:displayServiceInfo
-> aws:info:displayApiKeys
-> aws:info:displayEndpoints
-> aws:info:displayFunctions
-> aws:info:displayStackOutputs

remove

remove:remove

rollback

rollback:initialize

rollback:rollback

rollback function

rollback:function:rollback

logs

logs:logs

invoke

invoke:invoke

invoke local

invoke:local:loadEnvVars

invoke:local:invoke

create

create:create

config

config:credentials:config

install

install:install

login

login:login

logout

logout:logout

metrics

metrics:metrics

slstats

slstats:slstats

@anwarhamr you can link your plugin project directly via npm/yarn link

It reads like before:package:initialize would occur only on the first deploy but actually it occurs every deploy, before:create:create doesn't seem to be triggered. Is there a hook I am missing that would be called on the first deploy only?

Does this list exist for GCP?

best hooks to use before running a tests?

Adding information on when to use a specific lifecycle hook would be great.

This looks great! I have a quick question.

I am trying to use https://www.serverless.com/framework/docs/guides/output-variables . I have it configured like the

outputs:
  app-version: ${ssm:/app/${self:provider.stage}/versions/${self:service}, ''}

in my serverless.yml file. I update the mentioned SSM parameter using after:aws:deploy:deploy:updateStack hook .

However, the value of the outputs variable that I see on the dashboard is always the last value and not the one that was updated after the deployment. Is there a way to resolve this?

I need to update the SSM value after deployment as the value is the version number that should be updated only after a deployment has gone through.

I thought the serverless dashboard outputs variables could be a good way to keep track of that. Open to suggestions/modifications to make it work.