Need suggestions: How to have a production and development stages by using a single account?

Serverless Framework
1

I was thinking about using multiple stages like production and development using a single account. And how can i do that? “sls deploy --stage prod”. Is this proper way of implementing stages??

2

That will work. Some resource, like DynamoDB, require a different name for each stage. To do that I like to set the region and stage in my provider:

provider:
  region: ${opt:region, "us-east-1"}
  stage: ${opt:stage, "dev"}

I can then add -${self:provider.stage} to resource names so AWS creates different resources for each stage.

3

Hi, Thanks for your reply. What I was thinking is, How can I do it dynamically? Without providing the data inside the serverless.yml file ? Is there any issue with that approach ?

4

That is how you do it dynamically. Here’s a more complete example:

service:
  name: my-service

provider:
  name: aws
  runtime: nodejs8.10
  stage: ${opt:stage, "dev"}
  region: ${opt:region, "us-east-1"}

custom:
  myTableName: my-table-${self:provider.stage}

functions:
  helloWorld:
    handler: handler.helloWorld
    environment:
      TABLE_NAME: ${self:custom.myTableName}

resources:
  Resources:
    MyTable:
      Type: AWS::DynamoDB::Table
      Properties:
        AttributeDefinitions:
          - AttributeName: id
            AttributeType: S
        BillingMode: PAY_PER_REQUEST
        KeySchema:
          - AttributeName: id
            KeyType: HASH
        TableName: ${self:custom.myTableName}

You can now sls deploy --stage ANY_ENVIRONMENT and it will set up the complete environment including tables.