"Failed to create CloudFormation change set: No updates are to be performed." generates error code -1

[mciureanu]

Hello,

When calling deploy-serverless with a package created with package-ci command, the second time I call the command with the same package I get this as an error message: "Failed to create CloudFormation change set: No updates are to be performed." and the cli tool returns with exit code -1

This is processed by the most CI tools (for example Teamcity - the one I use) as an error, and the build fails.

I think the normal behavior, at least from the "deploy-serverless" point of view should be not to return exit code -1. I don't know if the aws-sdk-net should return ChangeSetStatus.FAILED or not, probably this is somehow another discussion (that should happen in the aws-sdk-net project, since there is no special status like SKIPPED), but as a user of "deploy-serverless" function I believe this should only seen as a warning, not an error. Even if this means checking the error message I guess.

[klaytaybai]

Hi @mciureanu, thank you for your feedback on this. Related commands in other products of ours seem to now either suppress the error automatically and generate a warning or allow a user to use an option to suppress the error. I think it is reasonable that we do the same here.

[pravindra-rathore]

@mciureanu unable to publish application to AWS as it generates when tried to publish

[Rashmi-278]

I faced this issue while creating a lamda funtion.
Changing the KeyID parameter value to a different one worked for me.
It was successfully deployed

[steveshiny]

I have a similar desire to see the "no-fail-on-empty-changeset" flag supported by these extensions, for largely the same reason. Our automated deployment finds the non-zero exit code and flags as an error/failure. Is there any update on whether support for this might be added?

[ganeshnj]

The status code should be inline with the CF returned response. If CF says no-changeset is success, CLI should return 0.

@ashishdhingra could you verify it?

[ashishdhingra]

The status code should be inline with the CF returned response. If CF says no-changeset is success, CLI should return 0.

@ashishdhingra could you verify it?

Findings:

• Based on existing stack status of StackStatus.UPDATE_COMPLETE, it uses ChangeSetType.UPDATE for CreateChangeSetRequest
• It then executes CloudFormationClient.CreateChangeSetAsync(changeSetRequest).
• It then polls the status of changeset via call to CloudFormationClient.DescribeChangeSetAsync(request).
• The CloudFormationClient.DescribeChangeSetAsync returns status ChangeSetStatus.FAILED with status reason No updates are to be performed..
• This method then returns false to the method call stack, where application exits with status code -1 in Application.Execute().

This feature request to support command line argument no-fail-on-empty-changeset needs to be reviewed by the team.

[ashishdhingra]

Another issue aws/aws-lambda-dotnet#1495 was also opened. Related issue aws/serverless-application-model#71.