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Register and login into https://cloud.ibm.com/
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Go to "IBM Cloud Functions", download and install the CLI
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Follow the instructions (some commands in the page are deprecated)
$ ibmcloud login$ ibmcloud plugin install cloud-functions$ ibmcloud target --cf$ ibmcloud fn list
- Install the OpenWhisk tools
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OpenWhisk CLI (wsk) https://github.com/apache/openwhisk-cli
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OpenWhisk Deploy (wskdeploy) https://github.com/apache/openwhisk-wskdeploy
- Implement the action/function
- Example of action: https://openwhisk.apache.org/documentation.html#go
- Upload the action code to the platform
$ wsk action create helloGo hello.go
- Invoke the action (-r shows the result and -p pass the parameters)
$ wsk action invoke helloGo -r -p name gopher
- Deploying the action and an API using the Whisk Deploy
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Create the manifest file
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Run the deployment
$ wskdeploy -m manifest.yaml
Command to list the available APIS
$ wsk api list
In the "IBM Cloud Functions - Actions" page it is possible to manage all the functions features (actions/apis/triggers/monitoring).
https://cloud.ibm.com/functions/actions
- Implement the action
- Example of action: https://github.com/IBM/ibm-cloud-functions-action-trigger-rule
- Poll the activation log to see what is happening (optional)
$ ibmcloud fn activation poll
- Upload the action file as a Cloud Function (in a terminal different from the log poll)
$ ibmcloud fn action create handler handler.js
- Invoke the action manually
$ ibmcloud fn action invoke --blocking handler
- Deploying the action and a trigger via shell script (the IBM Cloud tooling does not have a deploy tool like Whisk Deploy)
$ ./deploy.sh --install
In the "IBM Cloud Functions - Actions" page it is possible to manage all the functions features (actions/apis/triggers/monitoring).