Alibaba Cloud - Workflow
Intro. Quick recommendations and tips for various processes.
Development Workflow
- Write your functions
- Use
serverless deploy
when you've made changes toserverless.yml
and in CI/CD systems - Use
serverless invoke --function myFunction
to test your Alibaba Cloud Function Compute functions - Open up a separate tab in your console and see logs in there via
serverless logs --function myFunction
- Write tests to run locally
Larger Projects
- Break your application / project into multiple Serverless Services
- Model your Serverless Services around Data Models or Workflows
- Keep the Functions and Resources in your Serverless Services to a minimum
Cheat Sheet
A handy list of commands to use when developing with the Serverless Framework.
Create A Service:
- Create a new service with the
aliyun-nodejs
template
serverless create --template aliyun-nodejs --path my-service
- Install the dependencies
cd my-service
npm install
- Update
serverless.yml
Update credentials
in your projects serverless.yml
See credentials doc on how to setup your credentials.
Install A Service
This is a convenience method to install a pre-made Serverless Service locally by downloading the Github repo and unzipping it.
serverless install -u [GITHUB URL OF SERVICE]
Deploy
Use this when you have made changes to your Functions, Events or Resources in serverless.yml
or you simply want to deploy all changes within your Service at the same time.
serverless deploy
Invoke Function
Invokes an Alibaba Cloud Function
serverless invoke --function [FUNCTION NAME]
Logs
Open up a separate tab in your console and see logs for a specific function using the following command.
serverless logs --function [FUNCTION NAME]
Info
See information about your deployed service by running the info
command in your service directory.
serverless info