SLS-APB

Serverless Plugin for SOCless Playbook Builder (apb). Automatically renders State Machines from playbook.json files when a socless-playbooks stack is deployed.

It auto-generates the:

• Helper states which Task and Parallel States need to work properly in Socless
• The Yaml config required to upload the State Machine to SOCless via Cloudformation
• Task Failure handlers for all task states that will trigger when a Lambda fails
• Retry logic for all task states that will handle AWS Lambda service exceptions

Usage

Create your Socless Playbook Definition in a file called playbook.json.

The default retry object assigned to each Task looks like this:

{
  "ErrorEquals": [ "Lambda.ServiceException", "Lambda.AWSLambdaException", "Lambda.SdkClientException"],
  "IntervalSeconds": 2,
  "MaxAttempts": 6,
  "BackoffRate": 2
}

To disable default retries on certain tasks or all tasks, use the Decorators object DisableDefaultRetry:

"Decorators" : {
   "DisableDefaultRetry" : {
      "tasks" : [ "End_Cheer_Up", "<other_task_name>" ],
   }
}

"Decorators" : {
   "DisableDefaultRetry" : {
      "all" : true
   }
}

To automatically add a Task Failure Handler to each Task state that will trigger when a Lambda raises an unhandled exception, timeout, out of memory, etc :

"Decorators": {
   "TaskFailureHandler": {
      Task that runs when any step in the playbook fails...
   }
}

To use serverless unpacking for nonstring values (Int, Boolean, etc) that are also valid JSON, use the apb_render_nonstring_value() flag in your playbook.json. The example below is referencing an Int type in the serverless.yml custom variables definition:

            "Wait_24_Hour" : {
                "Type" : "Wait",
                "Seconds" : "apb_render_nonstring_value(${{self:custom.Wait_24_Hour_Config.${{self:provider.stage}}}})",
                "Next": "End_Cheer_Up"
            },

Feature Flags

To use cloudwatch logs for SOCless playbooks:

1. Ensure that you are on the most recent version of the Socless core stack which is exporting PlaybooksLogGroup as seen here
2. Add the following to your playbook repo's serverless.yml

serverless.yml:

custom:
  sls_apb:
      logging: true