sam deploy in an asynchronous manner

[naphtul]

Deploy in an Asynchronous manner

Currently when deploying a SAM template with a CodeDeploy configuration, the deployment process can take even 30 minutes or more, depending on the Strategy I choose (i.e. DeploymentPreference). I don't want my build or even a command line process to be "stuck" for this long.

Proposal

I am hoping to have a command line option for the sam deploy command (i.e. --async) and it would deploy the CloudFormation stack and not wait until it is done deploying all the stack resources. Something similar to the way aws cloudformation create-stack and aws cloudformation update-stack work. If I wish, I could implement a polling mechanism for the stack deployment status.

[metaskills]

I really really like this idea. I was just thinking the same thing. For example when using the Linear10PercentEvery1Minute with my CI/CD as Github Actions. It would be nice to not have to pay 10m for each deploy of action minutes. The better solution would be to build tooling around the GitHub Deployments (https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/repos#deployments) spec which fits nice with the async behavior and could report back on state. I've not thought thru everything yet, but that's the general idea.

➕1️⃣ (for async)

[metaskills]

sam deploy --no-execute-changeset would also work (saving you having to figure out if you need to upload the template to s3 or but), but to be safe you'd need to extract the changeset id

https://twitter.com/benbridts/status/1403123466702921729

[hoffa]

For the sake of completeness, in some situations a reasonable alternative is running the process in the background with sam deploy &.