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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 in serverless.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.