aws
[Doc Request]: Clarifications on Services management and limitations
Describe your idea/feature/enhancement
Seeking guidance and updates to documentation to clarify the following (tried searching multiple times through the docs, aws, github issues and discussions, web): (1) Can a service that was created previously be renamed? What are the problems, blockers from just manually changing the directory/manifest references? (2) If already a manifest and other files exist from some other repo for a service, would one be able to manually copy those files into a similar directory as a new service and skip the copilot svc init command, but instead just use the copilot svc deploy?
Proposal
Add details and guidance into the documentation of services with either a Troubleshooting, FAQ and/or new page sections addressing these types of questions, with warnings of the types of failures/errors that may happen if attempted.
Additional Details
@asb-realrev thanks for the suggestions! I agree that an FAQ/Troubleshooting page would be really helpful, especially with links to GitHub issues.
Just in case you still need answers for the clarification questions (and in case someone else stumbles into this):
(1) Can a service that was created previously be renamed? What are the problems, blockers from just manually changing the directory/manifest references?
No, you can't rename a service. Changing the directory name or manifest name field would both result in error, that luckily happens early before any deployment is made.
(2) If already a manifest and other files exist from some other repo for a service, would one be able to manually copy those files into a similar directory as a new service and skip the copilot svc init command, but instead just use the copilot svc deploy?
Yes, you should be able to do that.
Hope this helps!
