serverless: Unable to remove serverless stack that doesn't use API gateway...

Problem:

Step 1: Deploy a (simple?) stack that has no events from API Gateway, and it will not create an API Gateway as part of the CloudFormation stack (because it doesn’t need it). Eg: use an event source, such as S3.
Step 2: Try to serverless remove and it reports an error that says Resource ApiGatewayRestApi does not exist for stack stackname-goes-here.

Notes:

There’s nothing wrong with the CloudFormation in this instance… I can jump onto the AWS Console and grab the CF and click Delete Stack and it deletes the stack perfectly. I heard that in some of the recent releases of Serverless you added various pre-flight checks to save from a failing CloudFormation change. But in the case of removal, you probably want to skip these pre-flight checks, and merely check if the name of the CloudFormation stack exists, and if it does, just remove it.

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State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Comments: 19 (4 by maintainers)

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In my case, I have not http events but I had declared apiKeys under provider. I solved this problem, by removing the apiKeys declaration and then running sls remove.

+24

ajeya on Jun 22, 2018

I managed to run into this when using an external RestApi resource and defining an API key:

service: service-a

provider:
  apiGateway:
    restApiId: xxxxxxxxxx
  apiKeys:
    - myApiKey

Deployment succeeds, but removal fails because the code expects the ApiGatewayRestApi resource to be present in the serverless stack.

@pmuens Could we please reopen this?

christophgysin on Jun 7, 2019

Closing this issue since it’s quite old and there are some solutions in the issue thread.

pmuens on Feb 13, 2019