Nested stacks for the Serverless Framework!
Run npm install in your Serverless project.
$ npm install serverless-aws-nested-stacks --save-dev
Write your nested stacks as regular cloudformation and easily integrate them with the Serverless Framework!
This plugin handles:
- Adding the appropriate AWS::Cloudformation::Stack type resources to the generated sls cloudformation template.
 - Uploading your nested stacks to your designated S3 deployment bucket.
 
plugins:
  - serverless-aws-nested-stacks
custom:
  nested-stacks:
    location: nested-stacks                      # Where do you keep your nested stacks?
    stacks:
      - id: MyGroovyNestedStack                  # Logical ID (Required)
        template: nested-template.yml            # Template file name (Required)
        enabled: true                            # optional flag for enabled/disabling substack
        timeout: 60                              # Minutes before stack creation times out.
        parameters:                              # Stack parameters as key value pairs
          - InstanceType: t1.micro
          - BlahBlah: abc123
        tags:                                    # Stack tags
          - ${file(nested-stacks/core-tags.yml)} # Load tags from a file?
          - CustomTag: Yolo
        notifications:                           # Notification ARN's for SNS
          - arn:aws:sns:region:account-id:topicname
- custom.nested-stacks.location - (Required) Organisation is important. Keep all your nested stacks in one place and use this attribute to define where that place is.
 - custom.nested-stacks.stacks - (Required) Your very own list of nested stack definitions!
 - custom.nested-stacks.stacks.id - (Required) The logical ID of the nested stack resource.
 - custom.nested-stacks.stacks.template - (Required) The file name of the nested stack. Remember, this file must exist in the directory defined by custom.nested-stacks.location.
 - custom.nested-stacks.stacks.timeout - Time in minutes before the stack creation times out.
 - custom.nested-stacks.stacks.parameters - A list of key value pairs to be passed into the nested stack as parameters.
 - custom.nested-stacks.stacks.tags - A list of key value pairs to be passed into the nested stack as its tags.
 - custom.nested-stacks.stacks.notifications - A list of existing Amazon SNS topics where notifications about stack events are sent.
 - custom.nested-stacks.stacks.dependson - The ID of another CloudFormation resource. Specify another stack ID to order the application of nested stacks.
 
Read the AWS Cloudformation documentation for AWS::Cloudformation::Stack resources!