DevOps for Serverless Applications

A simple OpenWhisk application

Now let's create a simple service through the serverless Node.js template by going through the following steps:

1. Create a new serverless service/project:

$ serverless create --template openwhisk-nodejs --path new-service 

2. Change into the newly created directory:

$ cd new-service

3. Install the npm dependencies:

$ npm install

4. Once we finished, deploy the service and function to the Bluemix portal:

$ serverless deploy -v

5. Then we invoke the function to check whether the function is deployed properly. Invoke the serverless application using the following code:

$ serverless invoke --function hello { "payload": "Hello, World!" }

In the preceding tutorial, we got the auth keys, created an action, and deployed ...