Today we're proud to announce Serverless Framework v1.24.
v1.24 is a special release — it's the first one which was entirely run by our recently-onboarded Serverless Framework v1 maintainers!
Meet our Serverless Framework maintainers
Frank Schmid
Frank is an early serverless enthusiast. He got started when the Serverless Framework was in its v0.x infancy. Frank has contributed tons of great enhancements to the different codebases of the Framework.
His speciality is the v1 plugin system, where he managed to introduce the separation of the package and deploy steps in a non-breaking way with the help of a lifecycle deprecation and redirection mechanism.
Rafal Wilinski
Rafal has a deep background in Node.js and loves to play around with new technologies. When he stumbled upon the Serverless Framework a while back, he and immediately jumped in to provide new features and lend a hand in issue discussions.
Rafal loves to push Serverless technolgoies to its limits. That's why he's also playing around with different project ideas such as a 100% serverless Medium Text-To-Speech application. Make sure to give it a try here.
Takahiro Horike
Takahiro loves to get his hands dirty. He's fearless in testing the latest services in the serverless landscape to see how they can be introduced to the Serverless Framework! Many of the AWS event source plugins Serverless provides were introduced by him.
Make sure to check out his serverless experiments on his GitHub profile
In addition to that you can find him hanging around in GitHub comments or PRs. Takahiro is always working on bug fixes and enhancements that make Serverless development life even more productive and enjoyable.
We're proud and super happy that our community is so welcoming and engaged. Thank you everyone for being a part of it!
Changes v1.24 introduces
You can find a complete list of all the updates in the CHANGELOG.md file.
Alexa smartHome events
AWS recently added support for Alexa Smart Home events. This means Lambda functions can be invoked whenever, for example, certain Alexa Smart Home peripherals are used.
This opens the door for feature-rich, Alexa-based IoT applications!
Serverless Framework v1.24 adds support for this new event source. Using it is as easy as obtaining the Alexa Smart Home Skill application ID and adding the alexaSmartHome event as en event source to your function.
Here's an example setup of what this will look like:
functions:
lightbulb:
handler: lightbulb.handler
events:
- alexaSmartHome: amzn1.ask.skill.xx-xx-xx-xxYou can utilize additional configuration like this:
functions:
thermostat:
handler: thermostat.handler
events:
- alexaSmartHome:
appId: amzn1.ask.skill.xx-xx-xx-xx
enabled: falseTake a look at the Alexa Smart Home documentation for more information.
Create services with templates from an external repository
The serverless create command makes it easy to generate projects based on pre-defined templates, which ship with every Serverless release.
Creating a new AWS project which is powered by the nodejs runtime is as easy as entering:
serverless create --template aws-nodejs --path my-new-projectServerless v1.24 extends the functionality of this command so that you can now create services based on a template via Git.
In this example we install the aws-node-rest-api-mongodb template from our Serverless Examples Git repository.
serverless create --template-url https://github.com/serverless/examples/tree/master/aws-node-rest-api-mongodbNote: the template-url can be a simple Git repository link, as well as a nested directory structure within a Git repository (as we see above).
Print command to generate output of computed serverless.yml file
Ever wondered what the computed values of your Serverless Variables look like?
The new serverless print command makes it possible to inspect the computed serverless.yml file to see the completely resolved configuration file.
This makes it easier to find bugs during Serverless Variables usage or plugin development.
You can read more about it in our CLI documentation for the print command.
Configurable Authorizer Type
Serverless v1.24 introduces a way to configure custom authorizers with the help of the the type property.
In this example we're configuring the custom authorizer to be of type request.
functions:
create:
handler: posts.create
events:
- http:
path: posts/create
method: post
authorizer:
arn: xxx:xxx:Lambda-Name
resultTtlInSeconds: 0
identitySource: method.request.header.Authorization, context.identity.sourceIp
identityValidationExpression: someRegex
type: requestThis configuration ensures that the Authorizer function receives all of the parameters passed to the main function through the lamba-proxy integration type.
Note: The type will default to TOKEN if no value is provided.
Print message when an update is available
Consistently updating the Serverless Framework lets you benefit from the most recent bug fixes, features, and enhancements.
Since Serverless is distributed via npm, one could run npm outdated to get a list of all the packages on the machine which are ready for an update. But this step is manual and cumbersome.
v1.24 ships with an automated, built-in functionality which ensures that you'll receive a CLI message whenever a newer version of the Serverless Framework is available to download.
This way you'll never miss critical bug fixes (or new feature goodies).
Conceal API Gateway key values from the output
The Serverless Info plugin ensure that you'll get a short summary of your currently deployed service setup in your console.
It's automatically invoked after each deployment but could also be triggered by running serverless info.
While it's nice to get a quick overview of the whole service setup, it could also introduce potential security issues. One such issue is that the API Keys are automatically shown in the summary.
In Serverless Framework v1.24 it's now possible to use the --conceal option during deployment to hide sensitive information in the deployment summary.
Here's an example deployment call which uses the --conceal option:
serverless deploy --concealOther enhancements & bug fixes
This release also includes tons of other improvements and bug fixes.
Thank you very much for reporting bugs, opening issues and joining the discussions!
We hope that you enjoy this release! Feel free to provide some feedback in our Forum, via Twitter or on GitHub.
Contributors
This release contains lots of hard work from our beloved community, and wouldn't have been possible without passionate people who decided to spend their time contributing back to make the Serverless Framework better.
Huge round of applause to all of the contributors who submitted changes for this release:
- Alessio Coser
- Andres
- Andrew Oh
- Basile Trujilllo
- Ben Burhans
- Boaz de Jong
- Daniel Schep
- Daron Yondem
- Frank Schmid
- James Thomas
- Jeffrey Noehren
- Jonathan Spies
- Kostas Bariotis
- Mariusz Nowak
- Matt McCormick
- Michael Standen
- Mike Moss
- Preston Tighe
- Rafal Wilinski
- Remon Oldenbeuving
- Simon Males
- Takahiro Horike
- Timothy Stott
- Ulili
- Wouter92
- daviskoh
- guyklainer
- jeffnoehren
- leoybkim
- sharathm
Upcoming releases / contributions
In addition to the 1.25 milestone and its Issues and PRs, we still have lots and lots of other Issues and PRs. We'd love to implement and introduce these in some of the upcoming releases.
Do you want to help out and improve the Serverless Framework?
Great! We have lots of issues where you could leave some feedback or jump directly into the implementation.
Additionally PR reviews are also highly welcomed as they greatly speed up the time-to-merge.
Serverless Examples
The Serverless Examples Repository is an excellent resource if you want to explore some real world examples, or learn more about the Serverless Framework and serverless architectures in general.
Serverless Plugins
Serverless provides a completely customizable and pluggable codebase. Our community has written a vast amount of awesome plugins you can use to further enhance the capabilities of the Framework. You can find the full list at our Serverless Plugins Repository.
Don't hestitate to open up a PR over there if you've authored or found a new Serverless plugin!
