Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes

Deploying a function using the Nuclio dashboard

Nuclio has a cool web UI dashboard. The Nuclio dashboard is very well done; it is installed as a service in our cluster. First, we need to do a little port forwarding before we can access it:

$ kubectl port-forward -n nuclio $(kubectl get pods -n nuclio -l nuclio.io/app=dashboard -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}') 8070

Next, we can browse to localhost:8070 and play with the dashboard. The dashboard allows you to view, deploy, and test (or invoke) serverless functions directly from a single screen. This is great for ad hoc exploration.

Here, I slightly modified the hello example function (in Python) and even tested it with the text, Yeah, it works!:

Once the function is deployed in the ...