When calling zappa deploy dev AttributeError: 'Template' object has no attribute 'add_description'

I’m trying to build and deploy a new Zappa app for the first time, and when I ran Zappa deploy I got the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/zappa/cli.py", line 3422, in handle
    sys.exit(cli.handle())
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/zappa/cli.py", line 588, in handle
    self.dispatch_command(self.command, stage)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/zappa/cli.py", line 644, in dispatch_command
    self.vargs["docker_image_uri"],
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/zappa/cli.py", line 1194, in update
    endpoint_configuration=self.endpoint_configuration,
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/zappa/core.py", line 2417, in create_stack_template
    self.cf_template.add_description("Automatically generated with Zappa")
AttributeError: 'Template' object has no attribute 'add_description'

Context

I am running python 3.7.2 and am using a virtual environment. Zappa init ran just fine and I was able to generate a zappa_settings.json file.

Here is my pip freeze:

argcomplete==1.12.3
asgiref==3.4.1
boto3==1.18.6
botocore==1.21.6
certifi==2021.5.30
cfn-flip==1.2.3
charset-normalizer==2.0.3
click==8.0.1
Django==3.2.5
durationpy==0.5
future==0.18.2
hjson==3.0.2
idna==3.2
importlib-metadata==4.6.1
jmespath==0.10.0
kappa==0.6.0
pep517==0.11.0
pip-tools==6.2.0
placebo==0.9.0
python-dateutil==2.8.2
python-slugify==5.0.2
pytz==2021.1
PyYAML==5.4.1
requests==2.26.0
s3transfer==0.5.0
six==1.16.0
sqlparse==0.4.1
text-unidecode==1.3
toml==0.10.2
tomli==1.1.0
tqdm==4.61.2
troposphere==2.4.1
typing-extensions==3.10.0.0
urllib3==1.26.6
Werkzeug==0.16.1
wsgi-request-logger==0.4.6
zappa==0.53.0
zipp==3.5.0

Expected Behavior

Zappa should deploy correctly.

Actual Behavior

It looks like a lambda function is created for my Zappa project, but no API gateway is created, so it only gets so far in the deployment process before it fails, and the failure is the traceback as see above.

Your Environment

I am using OSX 11.2.3, and my zappa_settings.json file is:

{
    "dev": {
        "aws_region": "us-east-1",
        "django_settings": "scribox.settings",
        "profile_name": "default",
        "project_name": "django-lambda-i",
        "runtime": "python3.7",
        "s3_bucket": "MY_BUCKET"
    }
}

[omar-enrique]

Not sure when the #999 pull request is going to be reviewed, merged, and released, but for now to get myself unblocked, I manually went into the installed Zappa package I had in my Python modules, and manually edited the line that’s breaking. The issue is that the troposphere 3.0.0 version replaces add_description with set_description, so I changed that function in line 2417 in zappa/core.py from add_description to set_description.

https://github.com/zappa/Zappa/blob/master/zappa/core.py#L2417

With that change my app is now deploying just fine.

[rafagan]

Zappa is still under maintenance? How could a simply problem like that not be solved fast. Where’s the compatibility with flask 2?