#Alibaba Cloud - Install

Installs a service from a GitHub URL in the current working directory.

serverless install --url https://github.com/some/service

#Options

• --url or -u The services GitHub URL. Required.
• --name or -n Name for the service.

#Examples

#Installing a service from a GitHub URL

serverless install --url https://github.com/aliyun/serverless-boilerplate-aliyun-nodejs

This example will download the .zip file of the serverless-boilerplate-aliyun-nodejs service from GitHub, create a new directory with the name serverless-boilerplate-aliyun-nodejs in the current working directory and unzips the files in this directory.

#Installing a service from a GitHub URL with a new service name

serverless install --url https://github.com/aliyun/serverless-boilerplate-aliyun-nodejs --name my-aliyun-service

This example will download the .zip file of the serverless-boilerplate-aliyun-nodejs service from GitHub, create a new directory with the name my-aliyun-service in the current working directory and unzips the files in this directory and renames the service to my-aliyun-service if serverless.yml exists in the service root.

#Installing a service from a directory in a GitHub URL

serverless install --url https://github.com/aliyun/serverless-function-compute-examples/tree/master/aliyun-nodejs

This example will download the aliyun-nodejs service from GitHub.