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Docker for Serverless Applications

You're reading from   Docker for Serverless Applications Containerize and orchestrate functions using OpenFaas, OpenWhisk, and Fn

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835268
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Serverless and Docker 2. Docker and Swarm Clusters FREE CHAPTER 3. Serverless Frameworks 4. OpenFaaS on Docker 5. The Fn Project 6. OpenWhisk on Docker 7. Operating FaaS Clusters 8. Putting Them All Together 9. The Future of Serverless 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Fn CLI

This section will discuss how to use the basics of the Fn CLI, a command line to control Fn. Let's start with the installation of the Fn CLI. Make sure that the curl command exists on your system:

$ curl -LSs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fnproject/cli/master/install | sh

After installing the previous command, check its version and help by typing fn. The current version of the command line is 0.4.43 at the time of writing. Things move fast, so you can expect to use the different version anyway:

$ fn
fn 0.4.43

Fn command line tool

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES:
FN_API_URL - Fn server address
FN_REGISTRY - Docker registry to push images to, use username only to push to Docker Hub - [[registry.hub.docker.com/]USERNAME]

COMMANDS:
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There are several sub-commands provided by fn, for example:

  • fn start is a thin wrapper around the docker run command. This subcommand...
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