OpenFaas Project Quickstart

Preparing Your Environment

• Open https://labs.play-with-docker.com/
• Click on login & start
• Click on tool near the setting on the left side of PWD interface

• Choose 3 Managers and 2 workers and allow it to bring up 5 node cluster

Bringing Up the Visualizer

git clone https://github.com/ajeetraina/openfaas
cd openfaas/visualizer/
docker-compose up -d

Verifying the port the visualizer is running on

$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                             COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                    NAMES05b89b6b8aa9        dockersamples/visualizer:stable   "npm start"         56 seconds ago      U
p 55 seconds       0.0.0.0:8085->8080/tcp   visualizer_visualizer_1

As shown, it is running on port 8085. Open up browser to see the fancy visualizer tool.

Cloning the OpenFaas Repository:

git clone https://github.com/openfaas/faas
cd faas
./deploy_stack.sh

This will setup OpenFaas Stack

Installing faas-cli

curl -sL cli.openfaas.com | sh

$ faas-cli list
Function                        Invocations     Replicas
func_wordcount                  0               1func_hubstats                   0               1
func_base64                     0               1func_echoit                     0               1
func_markdown                   0               1tcpdump                         8               1
func_nodeinfo                   1               1[manager1] (local) root@192.168.0.151 ~
$

OpenFaas by default comes with few already baked in functions like as shown below:

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