OpenWhisk can run on a Mac host with Docker for Mac. If you prefer to use Docker-machine, you can follow instructions in docker-machine/README.md
The following are required to build and deploy OpenWhisk from a Mac host:
Tip Versions of Docker and Ansible are lower than the latest released versions, the versions used in OpenWhisk are pinned to have stability during continuous integration and deployment.
Homebrew is an easy way to install all of these and prepare your Mac to build and deploy OpenWhisk. The following shell command is provided for your convenience to install brew with Cask and bootstraps these to complete the setup. Copy the entire section below and paste it into your terminal to run it.
echo '
# install homebrew
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
# install cask
brew tap caskroom/cask
# install java 8
brew cask install java
# install scala
brew install scala
# install pip
sudo easy_install pip
# install script prerequisites
sudo -H pip install docker==2.2.1 ansible==2.3.0.0 jinja2==2.9.6 couchdb==1.1 httplib2==0.9.2 requests==2.10.0' | bash
cd /your/path/to/openwhisk
./gradlew distDocker
Tip Using gradlew handles the installation of the correct version of gradle to use.
Follow instructions in ansible/README.md
Follow instructions in Configure CLI
bin/wsk action invoke /whisk.system/utils/echo -p message hello --result
{
"message": "hello"
}