serverless: Missing native binary installer for arm64 architecture

Attempting installation via curl -o- -L https://slss.io/install | bash on an M1 mac results in the following error:

Sorry, there’s no serverless binary installer available for arm64 architecture. Please open request for it at https://github.com/serverless/serverless/issues

This is a fresh install on a fairly new machine, most of template bits for submitting a new issue were not applicable to this problem, I hope this format is acceptable.

I’m happy to help out with any debugging or providing any resources required to help support the new macs.

Edit by @pgrzesik

As of 2.69.0 version it is now possible to install binary on M1 Macs, however, these binaries are not native to arm64 architecture and still need Rosetta to run. For now we’ve postponed building and publishing native arm64 binaries because our CI/CD pipeline at the moment does not have easy access to M1 Macs for building such binaries.

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Install serverless using the new homebrew version for Mac m1 brew install serverless and you will install the version for arm64_big_sur

Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/serverless-2.29.0.arm64_big_sur.bottle.tar.gz

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amine2233 on Mar 15, 2021

Installer working fine with terminal open with Rosetta, sls is then working as expected, even with native Terminal.

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g-balas on Feb 20, 2021

I believe the “getting started” page should mention brew install serverless.

marcelloromani on Aug 29, 2021

It should be noted that mac is not the only possible use case for this. There may be some people who prefer to use ARM-based Linux workstations, such as Chromebook (mentioned earlier in this issue) or Raspberry Pi. Also, Windows on ARM is also a thing and WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux–something akin to a Linux VM) doesn’t have something like Rosetta to handle arm-amd translation.

For me specifically, my team builds a general purpose docker image for our CI/CD pipelines, and some of the targets are linux arm. We’re currently unable to bundle serverless in the image for arm because there isn’t a standalone binary install for that platform. We could install NodeJS and install it that way, but we try to keep components small, because we put a lot of other things into the image.

iancward on Feb 23, 2024

Hey @mnapoli - sorry for not answering sooner. I don’t think we should close this issue as the current approach only addresses it partially - it’s possible to install binary on M1 Macs, but it’s still running via Rosetta and isn’t built natively for arm64 arch. I think if we were to close this issue, we should open another one that will be used for tracking support for native M1 binary specifically. What do you think?

pgrzesik on Dec 16, 2021

Hey @pgrzesik , Yes, that’s what I ended up doing and it installed just fine.

Seeing “Install as standalone binary” as the first option on https://www.serverless.com/framework/docs/getting-started/ sent me down the wrong path initially. I then realized that’s not how I have it installed on the other machines I use it on. I finally installed it from the instructions on main Github page.

Thank you for reaching out.

rob-gonz on Mar 16, 2021