Now, we are ready to make our first deployment. You can either Git push a new change to master to trigger it. Or we can just go into the dev stage and hit the Trigger Deploy button.

Let’s do it through Git.

Go back to your project root and run the following.

$ npm version patch

This is simply updating the NPM version for your project. It is a good way to keep track of the changes you are making to your project. And it also creates a quick Git commit for us.

Push the change using.

$ git push

Now if you head into the dev stage in Seed, you should see a build in progress. Now to see the build logs, you can hit Build v1.

Seed dev build in progress screenshot

Here you’ll see the build taking place live. Click on the service that is being deployed. In this case, we only have one service.

Dev build page in progress screenshot

You’ll see the build logs for the in progress build here.

Dev build logs in progress screenshot

Notice the tests are being run as a part of the build.

Dev build run tests screenshot

Once the build is complete, take a look at the build log and make a note of the following:

  • Region: region
  • Cognito User Pool Id: UserPoolId
  • Cognito App Client Id: UserPoolClientId
  • Cognito Identity Pool Id: IdentityPoolId
  • S3 File Uploads Bucket: AttachmentsBucketName
  • API Gateway URL: ServiceEndpoint

We’ll be needing these later in our frontend and when we test our APIs.

Dev build stack output screenshot

Now head over to the app home page. You’ll notice that we are ready to promote to production.

We have a manual promotion step so that you get a chance to review the changes and ensure that you are ready to push to production.

Hit the Promote button.

Dev build ready to promote screenshot

This brings up a dialog that will generate a Change Set. It compares the resources that are being updated with respect to what you have in production. It’s a great way to compare the infrastructure changes that are being promoted.

Review promote change set screenshot

Scroll down and hit Promote to Production.

Confirm promote dev build screenshot

You’ll notice that the build is being promoted to the prod stage.

prod build in progress screenshot

And if you head over to the prod stage, you should see your prod deployment in action. It should take a second to deploy to production. And just like before, make a note of the following.

  • Region: region
  • Cognito User Pool Id: UserPoolId
  • Cognito App Client Id: UserPoolClientId
  • Cognito Identity Pool Id: IdentityPoolId
  • S3 File Uploads Bucket: AttachmentsBucketName
  • API Gateway URL: ServiceEndpoint

Prod build stack output screenshot

Next let’s configure our serverless API with a custom domain.