Deploying to AWS Lambda with Serverless + GitHub Actions (Modern CI/CD) | Serverless Saturday

In today's Serverless Saturday tutorial, we'll be going over how to set up a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions and the Serverless Framework, to deploy your serverless function to AWS Lambda.
Other Serverless Saturday tutorials:
Creating your first AWS Lambda Function: • Creating your first AW...
Intro to Serverless: • What is Serverless Com...
Sections:
0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Serverless Framework & GitHub Actions Intro
1:02 - Creating the IAM User
4:13 - Installing Dependencies & Boilerplate Code
5:23 - Understanding the starter serverless.yml file
8:21 - Writing the Lambda code
9:15 - Setting up CI/CD using GitHub Actions
12:59 - Verifying/testing our Deployment
17:05 - Wrap up
Serverless Framework: www.serverless.com/
GitHub Actions: github.com/features/actions
Source Code: github.com/jacksonyuan-yt/bas...
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[@ephilihp]

Thank you for having an actually useful tutorial! So glad to find actually useful information after wading through the cesspool of marketing slide decks.

[@j0Nt4Mbi]

Wow Jackson, Thanks for sharing the knowledge!!

[@jameswilliam4570]

Thank you! This was a great introduction to Serverless and Github Actions!

[@jacksonyuan7744]

I'm glad you found it helpful! Let me know if there's any other content/tutorials you'd like to see!

[@jameswilliam4570]

@@jacksonyuan7744 I'm having a lot of difficulty with environment variables. Serverless keeps resetting the one's in my lambda functions on AWS and I also don't want to make API's visible on GitHub. Maybe I'm not the only having difficulty with this right now!

[@jacksonyuan7744]

@@jameswilliam4570 I briefly go over how to set env variables using the Serverless framework here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gV7GYXSlgtKUhbc. This works well if your variable isn't holding a secret value. For storing secrets and using them in your Lambda function, I would recommend trying a service such as AWS Secrets Manager: aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/. I hope that helps!

[@thinhlpg]

Thank you! This is awesome!

[@dundasbrands]

Thanks so much super helpful!

[@marybeliveau2562]

Extremely helpful, thank you!!

[@jacksonyuan7744]

Glad I could help!

[@samtonijourney]

makes my day. thanks!

[@hazadan123]

Thanks for the tutorial, really helpful. you got one more subscriber :)

[@jacksonyuan7744]

Thanks for the feedback and subscription! Let me know anytime if there's other content/tutorials you'd like to see!

[@armandocarracedovelazquez672]

Thanks you!

[@lutdootutdoo5342]

Very helpful! Thanks

[@jyotindratavanoji9929]

For developers who are trying this out in 2022, please add 1 more policy in you IAM group : awsS3FullAccess , or else it will give out a error in deployment of the serverless.yaml file. S3 bucket permission denied ! . 🧑‍💻❤️

[@arjunbk5825]

Thank You

[@arjunbk5825]

If you face with an Error: "ROLLBACK_COMPLETE state and can not be updated". Try deleting the stack with "aws cloudformation delete-stack --stack-name "

[@007eumamerda]

Thank you

[@abhinaypratap3889]

good and best

[@deepikajha3757]

Thanks man for this tutorial it is very helpful. Can you also post video on triggering lamda on sns topic and sending mail to subscriber using SES

[@jacksonyuan7744]

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll definitely look into it :)

[@ernes4705]

Thanks you, is a good video. I have a question: What if I have several serverless files, how can I reference them using this github action?

[@user-xb7pf6ry6m]

Thank you for the tutorial. I don't understand why in the GitHub Action, we didn't specify the line for installing the serverless package, which is useful for deployment.

[@lesliechiu1437]

hi, I followed your steps and have two errors, and I fixed them; first, it showed" s3:CreateBucket Access Denied", I added S3FullAccess to that IAM User group; second, i had a "ROLLBack Complete" error, then I deleted it in AWS console and re-run the job. Finally problems resolved.

[@ianramsianto7051]

by delete it, do you mean delete stack in CloudFormation?

[@travelingvibes7796]

Hi sir i am facing the error while deploy through github action and the error is : " An error occurred: ServerlessDeploymentBucket - API: s3:CreateBucket Access Denied." please help me

[@olehbilykh4695]

If u've found the fix, pls reply

[@dipakbhise4779]

Please help me this error is showing i have also added serverless-dotenv-plugin this in serverless.yml file Error: Serverless plugin "serverless-dotenv-plugin" not found. Make sure it's installed and listed in the "plugins" section of your serverless config file. Run "serverless plugin install -n serverless-dotenv-plugin" to install it.

[@nicodemus399]

can I do this for a rest api ?, how would I do it for the npm install?

[@lesliechiu1437]

hi, i just followed your steps. but I got this error : CREATE_FAILED: ServerlessDeploymentBucket (AWS::S3::Bucket) API: s3:CreateBucket Access Denied Do we need to S3 in this video?

[@kumarbanavathu7716]

The bucket name should be globally unique

[@sebascardonac]

How Can I do to configúrate The serverless yml to dont save the source code into S3?

[@Youdude2]

Can this be done without an IAM user and using only a lambda execution role?

[@jacksonyuan7744]

Hi! I don't believe so. Lambda execution roles are meant for granting your Lambda function the necessary permissions to interact with other AWS services. However, many of the managed policies we attach to the IAM user here are required for the Serverless Framework to make its deployment and not for the operations conducted within the Lambda function.

[@sunsampicesg]

some of the steps Jackson not mention How git repo to AWS configure account configure

[@engineerbarkat]

User: arn:aws:iam:::user/SocialHub_User_Barkat is not authorized to perform: cloudformation:DescribeStacks on resource: arn:aws:cloudformation:us-east-1::stack/socialhub-dev/* with an explicit deny in a service control policy. I am got this error can anyone help me with this?