.env being removed after being generated

[kraiovsky]

running

> sls env generate

first creates and then removes just generated .env. Sample output:

Serverless: DOTENV: Could not find .env file.
Serverless: Creating .env file...
Serverless: Removed .env file

same happens for sls package and other commands which seems to be expected according to after:deploy hooks, but shouldn't happen for a manual generation?

Running serverless v1.51.0

[kraiovsky]

Looked through the code and it seems to be working as designed.
In my case, though, I run the app both as a server (with Koa + serverless-http) and as a Lambda function. I keep env variables in environment.yml, generate single .env which is used by both.
So, keeping .env file is important.

I created a pull request to accept an option sls env generate -keepEnvFile to keep it: #12

[tlimp]

Thing is, it's kind of going against the purpose of having no unencrypted credentials longer than necessary on your file system.
We'll have a look into it and coming back to you as soon as possible.

[jim-spot]

In my case I need the ability to use secrets in a Lambda@Edge function. Since it doesn't support environment variables, the only way you can really get this to work is to include a .env file with the deployment. I think a -packageEnvFile option would be really nice to have in this case.