Serverless Architectures with Kubernetes

8. Introduction to Apache OpenWhisk

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Run OpenWhisk with IBM Cloud Functions
• Create, list, invoke, update, and delete OpenWhisk actions
• Utilize and invoke OpenWhisk web actions and sequences
• Automate OpenWhisk action invocation with feeds, triggers, and rules

This chapter covers Apache OpenWhisk and how to work with its actions, triggers, and packages.

Introduction to OpenWhisk

Until now in this book, we have learned about the Kubeless framework, which is an open source Kubernetes-native serverless framework. We discussed the Kubeless architecture, and created and worked with the Kubeless functions and triggers. In this chapter, we shall be learning about OpenWhisk ...