#AWS - 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 Git URL (can be a plain Git or a Code Hosting Platform URL). Required.
• --name or -n Name for the service.

#Provided lifecycle events

• install:install

#Supported Code Hosting Platforms

• GitHub
• GitHub Enterprise
• GitLab
• BitBucket
• BitBucket Server

#Examples

#Installing a service from a GitHub URL

serverless install --url https://github.com/pmuens/serverless-crud

This example will download the .zip file of the serverless-crud service from GitHub, create a new directory with the name serverless-crud 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/pmuens/serverless-crud --name my-crud

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

#Installing a service from a directory in a GitHub URL

serverless install --url https://github.com/serverless/examples/tree/master/aws-node-rest-api-with-dynamodb

This example will download the aws-node-rest-api-with-dynamodb service from GitHub.