This plugin creates a deployment package on a per service basis (it will zip up all code for the whole service). It does not provide any executable command.

How it works

Package starts by hooking into the deploy:createDeploymentArtifacts lifecycle.

It will zip the whole service directory. The artifact will be stored in the .serverless directory which will be created upon zipping the service. The resulting path to the artifact will be appended to the service.package.artifact property.

Services can use exclude as an array. The array should be a series of globs to be considered for exclusion.

For example in serverless.yaml:

package:
  exclude:
    - "test/**"
    - "**/spec.js"

Serverless will automatically exclude .git, .gitignore, serverless.yml, and .DS_Store.

Servlerless will skip this step if the user has defined it's own artifact in the service.package.artifact property.

At the end it will do a cleanup by hooking into the [after:deploy:deploy](/lib/plugins/deploy) lifecycle to remove the .serverless directory.