Hi guys, Is there a way to call

npx sst deploy

and just do a deploy without building it again?

Hey @Aram, currently no. What’s ur use case?

Hey @Frank, I'm deploying the same code to multiple stages and wanted to avoid rebuilding it every time and just deploy the already built assets to another stage

Well, if you don’t share accounts between stages, most of the resources are changing.

Right, the CloudFormation template is different for different stages b/c the template name and the resource names are parameterized with the sage name.

@Frank I was actually looking for this as well, but my use case is different. My pipelines generally have 3 steps

Source -> Manual Approval -> Deploy

the desired one is

Source -> Build -> Manual Approval -> Deploy Without Build

This would make our deployments much faster because the build does not have to be done twice.

@Frank I'm using the same account for all of those stages, so in general I don't have anything that's different from stage to stage other then the env vars

@geekmidas @Aram Opened an issue for this - https://github.com/serverless-stack/serverless-stack/issues/779

@Frank that's correct, that's a good point, so the question would be is it possible to regenerate only the template and not rebuild the assets?

Yeah, I guess a flag to skip packaging the function code can work for

sst build

, and you can supply previously built assets.

@Frank having that would be really awesome, in our case we are deploying the same production stack to multiple stages and it will decrease the deployment time dramatically

Got it. Created an issue for this https://github.com/serverless-stack/serverless-stack/issues/781

@Frank another nice thing here would be to avoid rebuilding before redeploy if there is no codebase change. The use case for that is when there is an issue during redeployment that can be fixed manually from aws console and redeploy it will still build the same code before redeploying again