How to transform a Serverless framework yaml to template of Cloudformation?

Question

is there a way to get the transformed Cloudformation template from a serverless framework yaml via the console, CLI, or another way?

Answer 1

When you use serverless framework cli to build your stack a new folder get created (.serverless) with generated Cloudformation tamplates, try to run this CLI command:

sls package

or

serverless package

both works.

The Cloudformation templates will be in JSON.