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OpenWhisk is a distributed, event-driven compute service, or simply a serverless compute runtime. It was created by IBM.

OpenWhisk is a distributed, event-driven compute service, or simply a serverless compute runtime. It was created by IBM and is currently in the Apache Incubator. The code can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/apache/openwhisk

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Watson Assistant action to call IBM Cloud Function fails with Direct CloudFunctions calls are not supported on this platform

We are trying to implement cloud functions in Watson conversation but am receiving message 'Direct CloudFunctions calls are not supported on this platform'. When I googled for the error, I see that the issue could be because the region for WA and…
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Add invoker to already deployed OpenWhisk

I've an OpenWhisk instance running on my Ubuntu server. How can I deploy a new invoker on another machine which will function as an invoker of the current system?
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Issue with Callback - OpenWhisk with Nodejs runtime

I am developing a module in BlueMix OpenWHisk, where after a Cloudant feed change, I need to call an url, which would update few details on another platform. I am using nodejs runtime. The ask is for my action to wait, for the result of the POST…
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invoking OpenWhisk actions from a Python app?

I wonder what is the easiest way to invoke an OpenWhisk action from a Python app? Perhaps something equivalent to https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-client-js/ but in Python. I know that there used to be a Python-based CLI…
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Install OpenWhisk CLI on mac

I am unable to install OpenWhisk command line for some reason. I download the CLI and double click to run it. I see a terminal window saying [Process Complete] But then it says -bash: wsk: command not found
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Security of cloudant query from OpenWhisk

I'm building an Angular SPA with a Cloudant data store on Bluemix. Since the Bluemix implementation of OpenWhisk doesn't use VCAP services, I see 3 options to use OpenWhisk as my api provider for cloudant queries for my Angular app: Follow the…
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How do I access VCAP_SERVICES from an OpenWhisk Java action in Bluemix?

I would like to access another Bluemix service from an OpenWhisk action, and prefer not to pass credentials from outside. It doesn't seem that VCAP_SERVICES is present in the environment of the JVM. Is there a way to retrieve it?
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How do I configure and access logs in Java and Docker based OpenWhisk actions?

Looking at OpenWhisk samples, it seems like JavaScript-based actions can use console.log() to report log information that would be collected and accessible through the activation API. However, it is not clear how to report logs from Java-based or…
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OpenWhisk - character sets?

I recently started using OpenWhisk and love it. Everything seems to work real nice, except I have run into some issue which might be related to character sets / encoding. E.g. when I use "Scandinavian characters", like æ, ø, å, I see this in the…
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Set property namespace in openwhisk wsk cli

I'm trying to create namespace in openwhisk along with auth and api host, but it's not working for me. The official documentation says to use this command. While -i is used to bypass the certificates. wsk property -i set \ --apihost…
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Accessing openwhisk playground UI in docker-compose deployment

I am new to openwhisk. I have first done deployment locally in standalone mode. That worked fine. I was able to set auth and apihost and access the function playground UI via http://172.17.0.1:3232. But now I am using docker-compose deployment…
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what is the difference between the serverless function instance and the container instance?

I'm new to serverless computing, and I have questions about serverless functions concurrency. Some open-source serverless platforms like OpenWhisk OpenFaas deeply function using docker containers. These functions can scale up and scale down based on…
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Is Openwhisk still being actively developed?

I have used the openwhisk/standalone image from docker hub. Is that still current - the latest revision is from a few weeks ago but very little docs on the page. There are many openwhisk repositories but little information about them - eg what is…
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IBM Watson Assistnat: Extend the Webhook's time when sending a webhook to a Cloud Function

While developing a client application that uses its own styling, but also IBM Watson Assistant under the hood, problems have been discovered when the webhook's time is exceeded. The composition is as follows: a client app sends a request to Watson…
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OpenWhisk send message to Kafka timeout

Environment details CentOS7、Standalone OpenWhisk Problem description I plan to send a message to Kafka in openwhisk, the data flow process is: WSK CLI -> OpenWhisk action -> kafka-console-consume. But there will be intermittent failures in the…
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