Cannot find lodash whilst deploying with AWS Pipeline

[dgmerinos]

We're experiencing the following error while trying to deploy in AWS Pipeline:

The container image is aws/codebuild/standard:7.0.

The previous install commands before attempting to deploy:

    - n install 22
    - node --version
    - npm install -g serverless@3.38.0
    - npm install --save-dev serverless-prune-plugin
    - npm install -g lodash

Then we try to deploy:

    - serverless plugin install -n serverless-apigateway-service-proxy
    - serverless deploy --verbose --stage $STAGE --region us-east-1

But we get the following error:

✔ Plugin "serverless-apigateway-service-proxy" installed  (2s)

[Container] 2025/05/23 01:21:54.707107 Running command serverless deploy --verbose --stage $STAGE --region us-east-1
Environment: linux, node 22.16.0, framework 3.38.0, plugin 7.2.3, SDK 4.5.1
Docs:        docs.serverless.com
Support:     forum.serverless.com
Bugs:        github.com/serverless/serverless/issues

Error:
Error: Cannot find module 'lodash'
Require stack:
- /codebuild/output/src1487062427/src/node_modules/serverless-apigateway-service-proxy/lib/apiGateway/validate.js
- /codebuild/output/src1487062427/src/node_modules/serverless-apigateway-service-proxy/lib/index.js
- /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/utils/require-with-import-fallback.js
- /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/classes/plugin-manager.js
- /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/serverless.js
- /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/scripts/serverless.js
- /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/bin/serverless.js
    at Function._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1401:15)
    at defaultResolveImpl (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1057:19)
    at resolveForCJSWithHooks (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1062:22)
    at Function._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1211:37)
    at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:322:14)
    at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:235:24)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1487:12)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:135:16)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/codebuild/output/src1487062427/src/node_modules/serverless-apigateway-service-proxy/lib/apiGateway/validate.js:3:11)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1730:14)
    at Object..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1895:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1465:32)
    at Function._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1282:12)
    at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:322:14)
    at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:235:24)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1487:12)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:135:16)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/codebuild/output/src1487062427/src/node_modules/serverless-apigateway-service-proxy/lib/index.js:5:18)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1730:14)
    at Object..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1895:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1465:32)
    at Function._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1282:12)
    at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:322:14)
    at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:235:24)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1487:12)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:135:16)
    at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/utils/require-with-import-fallback.js:5:12)
    at PluginManager.requireServicePlugin (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/classes/plugin-manager.js:171:14)
    at PluginManager.resolveServicePlugins (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/classes/plugin-manager.js:198:29)
    at PluginManager.loadAllPlugins (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/classes/plugin-manager.js:136:47)
    at Serverless.init (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/serverless.js:146:30)
    at async /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless/scripts/serverless.js:601:7

[Container] 2025/05/23 01:21:56.298091 Command did not exit successfully serverless deploy --verbose --stage $STAGE --region us-east-1 exit status 1
[Container] 2025/05/23 01:21:56.303194 Phase complete: BUILD State: FAILED
[Container] 2025/05/23 01:21:56.303214 Phase context status code: COMMAND_EXECUTION_ERROR Message: Error while executing command: serverless deploy --verbose --stage $STAGE --region us-east-1. Reason: exit status 1
[Container] 2025/05/23 01:21:56.341486 Entering phase POST_BUILD

Please note we were using image 5.0 and node 18 but the error was the same. I thought it was the image version or the node version so I bumped it but I still see the error.

We have other projects with t he same version of serverless framework but that DO NOT use the serverless-apigateway-service-proxy plugin and these DO NOT fail. This is why I'm posting this issue here rather than in the serverless repo.

Also, about a month ago we deployed this same pipeline without changes in versions just fine. But recently, it started to fail.