Docker for Serverless Applications

Preparing a function

Before a function can be deployed and invoked, we need to prepare a binary program and pack it as a function container.

Here are the steps to package your program into a function container:

1. Create a Dockerfile containing the FROM instruction to derive it from a base image. You can even use the Alpine base image.
2. Add the function watchdog binary to the image using the ADD instruction. The function watchdog's name is fwatchdog and can be found on the OpenFaaS release page.
3. Add the function program to the image. We usually use the COPY instruction to do so.
4. Define the environment variable named fprocess with the ENV instruction to point to our function program.
5. Expose port 8080 for this container image using the EXPOSE ...