Serverless: Running "serverless" installed locally (in service node_modules)

Question

I am trying to deploy a service to aws using serverless. I am deploying it using gitlab cicd instead of doing it locally. Initially my serverless version was latest(had not mentioned any specific version) but then when I pushed my code to gitlab and i got few errors in the pipeline as the latest version is not stable. So had to change the version to a stable version. Now when i pushed my code changes to gitlab, my deployment failed and i got

Serverless Error ---------------------------------------- Cannot run local installation of the Serverless Framework by the outdated global version. Please upgrade via: npm install -g serverless Note: Latest release can run any version of the locally installed Serverless Framework.

I dont want to upgrade my serverless version.

in my gitlab-ci.yml i have changed

- npm install -g serverless

to this

- npm install -g [email protected]

Is there any way I can fix this ?

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Answer 1

in your case, the most likely reason for that is the fact that you have a local installation of Serverless or some of the plugins/your other dependencies have Serverless v3 in peer dependencies and install it by default in npm@7 and higher. To resolve it, either remove local installation or pin the version of the locally installed Serverless (in devDependencies of package.json of your project).