No export named dev-ExtNotesTableArn found

[alex-dixon]

Hi. Got this when running sls deploy from services/notes-api.

sls deploy
Serverless: Bundling with Webpack...
Serverless: Packaging service...
Serverless: Creating Stack...
Serverless: Checking Stack create progress...
.....
Serverless: Stack create finished...
Serverless: Uploading CloudFormation file to S3...
Serverless: Uploading artifacts...
Serverless: Uploading service create.zip file to S3 (761.74 KB)...
Serverless: Uploading service get.zip file to S3 (761.87 KB)...
Serverless: Uploading service list.zip file to S3 (761.88 KB)...
Serverless: Uploading service delete.zip file to S3 (761.7 KB)...
Serverless: Uploading service update.zip file to S3 (762.35 KB)...
Serverless: Validating template...
Serverless: Updating Stack...
Serverless: Checking Stack update progress...
..
Serverless: Operation failed!
Serverless: View the full error output: https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/home?region=us-east-1#/stack/detail?stackId=arn%3Aaws%3Acloudformation%3Aus-east-1%3A892036928957%3Astack%2Fnotes-app-ext-notes-api-dev%2Fa664cef0-21f5-11ea-94cc-0ef4281dfc4d

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  An error occurred: notes-app-ext-notes-api-dev - No export named dev-ExtNotesTableArn found.

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[jayair]

Yeah it's talked about in the guide. We need to deploy the resources before deploying this repo.

[GioAgu17]

I already deployed the resources, but still not finding the External resources.
Stack dev-remark-ext-infra-dynamodb Status: no changes Outputs: TableName: dev-remark-ext-infra-dynamodb-TableCD117FA1-1K5YBO1DN4MZU TableArn: arn:aws:dynamodb:us-east-2:554426681508:table/dev-remark-ext-infra-dynamodb-TableCD117FA1-1K5YBO1DN4MZU Exports: dev-remark-ext-infra-ExtTableName: dev-remark-ext-infra-dynamodb-TableCD117FA1-1K5YBO1DN4MZU dev-remark-ext-infra-ExtTableArn: arn:aws:dynamodb:us-east-2:554426681508:table/dev-remark-ext-infra-dynamodb-TableCD117FA1-1K5YBO1DN4MZU

Then when I run serverless deploy -v in my services repo:
An error occurred: serverless-lerna-yarn-service1-dev - No export named dev-remark-ext-infra-ExtTableName found.

[GioAgu17]

Ok, was able to determine why.

Cross-stack references only apply within the same region.

I suggest to put wherever in the code a wrong value in the region, so when running people will be forced to put their working region. There are too many references of region along the repos and the services.

Even better, an environment variable! :)

[jayair]

Yup these need to be in the same region.