Askedio / serverless-ssm-seed

Serverless AWS SSM Parameter Store seed plugin

This plugin will seed your AWS SSM Parameter Store with the environment you have defined in your serverless config. By default your .env will be used to populate the values;

More information about SSM environment variables: Server Variables from AWS SSM Parameter Store

Installation

npm i serverless-ssm-seed --save-dev

Configuration

In your serverless.yml:

Define the plugin

plugins:
    - serverless-ssm-seed

Define the configuration

custom:
  ssm: 
    secure: ['SECURE_VAR']
    ignore: ['SOME_VAR']
    stages: ['dev', 'staging', 'production']

Define the ssm environment variables

  environment:
    SECURE_VAR: ${ssm:/${self:custom.stage}/SECURE_VAR~true}
    SOME_VAR: ${ssm:/${self:custom.stage}/SOME_VAR}

Usage

Seed using your .env values for the defaults:

sls ssm-seed

Use a string instead of .env values for the defaults:

sls ssm-seed --ssm-default='default'

Verify

• Login to your AWS Console
• Services -> Systems Manager
• Parameter Store

You should now see your environment parameters.