OpenWhisk - Create
Creates a new service in the current working directory based on the provided template.
Create service in current working directory:
serverless create --template openwhisk-nodejs
Create service in new folder:
serverless create --template openwhisk-nodejs --path myService
Options
--template
or-t
The name of one of the available templates. Required if --template-url and --template-path are not present.--template-url
or-u
A URL pointing to a remotely hosted template. Required if --template and --template-path are not present.--template-path
The local path of your template. Required if --template and --template-url are not present.--path
or-p
The path where the service should be created.--name
or-n
the name of the service inserverless.yml
.
Provided lifecycle events
create:create
Available Templates
To see a list of available templates run serverless create --help
Most commonly used templates:
- openwhisk-nodejs
- openwhisk-python
- openwhisk-php
- openwhisk-ruby
- openwhisk-swift
- plugin
Examples
Creating a new service
serverless create --template openwhisk-nodejs --name my-special-service
This example will generate scaffolding for a service with openwhisk
as a provider and nodejs:6
as runtime. The scaffolding will be generated in the current working directory.
The provider which is used for deployment later on is Apache OpenWhisk.
Creating a named service in a (new) directory
serverless create --template openwhisk-nodejs --path my-new-service
This example will generate scaffolding for a service with openwhisk
as a provider and nodejs
as runtime. The scaffolding will be generated in the my-new-service
directory. This directory will be created if not present. Otherwise Serverless will use the already present directory.
Additionally Serverless will rename the service according to the path you provide. In this example the service will be renamed to my-new-service
.
Creating a new service using a local template
serverless create --template-path path/to/my/template/folder --path path/to/my/service --name my-new-service
This will copy the path/to/my/template/folder
folder into path/to/my/service
and rename the service to my-new-service
.
Create service in new folder using a custom template
serverless create --template-url https://github.com/serverless/serverless/tree/master/lib/plugins/create/templates/openwhisk-nodejs --path myService
Creating a new plugin
serverless create --template plugin
This example will generate scaffolding for a hello world plugin that demonstrates how to create a new command and how to listen to the various events available.