Config a function in serverless.yml that it should only be invoked locally

Serverless Framework
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I some functions that I only invoke locally. They are used to setting up initial the s3 content, so i need them to be able to access the serverless.yml properties. However, I i don’t need them to be installed to aws lambda. Is there a way l to allow a function to be invoked locally but prevent it from be installed as a lambda?

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I don’t completely understand your question, but my question is if you only need to invoke a function locally, why even include it in your serverless.yml file? Any functions in the serverless.yml file will be deployed to the ‘provider’.

Can you describe your use case so I can better help you?

Thanks,
Rupak Ganguly

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I do the similar thing, differences are, I need initialise dynamodb tables.

I split the tasks seperately, and managed with npm scripts.

sls deploy
npm run db-init
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I want to to have access to properties stated in the serverlesss.yml.
e.g: “stage”, “environment variables” etc’…

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You have access to the variables using the framework’s variable system, or if you need access to those to modify the life-cycle events of the framework itself, you can write a plugin. The plugin system has access to lot more things.

Let me know if that answers your question.

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To the best of my knowledge, the variable system works only under “sls invoke” or “sls invoke local”. So if i want a local function to access the variable system i need to “invoke” it.

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@amitm02 Not really sure what you want to do, TBH. If you can describe your use case a little better, I can be of better help. Where is your function in relation to the serverless service? What are you trying to do? etc.

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I have a use case that is similar to this. I have a daily batch processing lambda function whose input data finally grew enough that it exceeds the current memory limit of AWS Lambda functions. I would like to configure a larger memory limit for local invocation instead of rewriting the process to live outside of the serverless framework if possible.

I’m looking for ideas on how I could achieve that (increased memory/timeout) when invoked locally.