Administration and deployment
OpenWhisk exposes a number of features for the effective administration of the clusters and their entities. This is intended for the operators of the cluster and not the developers. In order to manage OpenWhisk, you need to install and set up the wskadmin CLI. Please refer to the documentation on this at https://github.com/apache/OpenWhisk/blob/master/tools/admin/README.md.
When it comes to deployment, so far we have deployed actions and created packages, rules, and triggers using the CLI. There is another way to do these at scale and in a more structured way. It allows you to describe your OpenWhisk entities using a manifest file written in YAML format. This helps developers to define OpenWhisk entities as code/configuration and manage them via git. There is another CLI – wskdeploy – that should be used to apply the manifest file against an OpenWhisk installation. It also introduces the concept of projects to collectively manage a set...
