Install and configure 3rd party plugins automatically (based on serverless.yml)

This is a Bug Report

When updating the plugins section of serverless.yml dynamically, it doesn’t actually install and configure the required plugins.

Here’s a snippet of serverless.yml config: plugins: ${file(utils/combineServerlessConfig.js):plugins}

utils/combineServerlessConfig.js: module.exports.plugins = () => { return [ 'serverless-plugin-aws-alerts', 'serverless-plugin-warmup' ] }

Description

• What went wrong?

The .serverless/serverless-state.json pulls in the required plugins, but the plugins doesn’t seem to load.

• What did you expect should have happened?

I would have expected serverless install and deploy serverless-plugin-aws-alerts and serverless-plugin-warmup but it does not.

• What was the config you used?

serverless.yml ` service: aws-python3-example

plugins: ${file(utils/combineServerlessConfig.js):plugins}

provider: name: aws runtime: python3.6

functions: hello: handler: handler.hello `

utils/combineServerlessConfig.js: module.exports.plugins = () => { return [ 'serverless-plugin-aws-alerts', 'serverless-plugin-warmup' ] }

• What stacktrace or error message from your provider did you see? Does not output any errors; but it doesn’t deploy / configure any of the required packages.

Additional Data

• Serverless Framework Version you’re using: 1.17.0
• Operating System: macOS Sierra 10.12.5
• Stack Trace: N/A
• Provider Error messages: N/A

[lsorber]

Closing since the plugin command can auto-install plugins for you. Other than that it’s required to install and configure plugins on your own since there are many different ways to use and confugre plugins.

@pmuens How do you auto-install plugins with the plugin command? If I run sls plugin install it tells me I need to provide a plugin name to install:

This command requires the --name option / -n shortcut. Usage: The plugin name

The help information doesn’t mention any other options for auto-installing the plugins specified in serverless.yml.

[ChrisLanks]

Same issue. We end up parsing the yaml in order to install the plugins 1 by 1, or npm installing. Can we run 1 command to install all plugins. It would make CI/CD much simpler. @pmuens or whoever has a better solution.