Whisk Deploy — Zip Actions

Priti Desai

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Nov 20, 2017

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OpenWhisk supports creating an action from a single source file like we saw in Getting Started with Whisk Deploy. OpenWhisk also supports creating an action using multiple source files and a set of packages on which your action depends on. These kind of actions are called zip actions.

Lets look at how we can deploy zip actions using wskdeploy:

Step 1: Create a manifest file (manifest.yaml)

Assuming that my-zip-action has the following directory structure and action source code:

$ ls actions/my-zip-action
index.js
package.json

index.js:

package.json

Step 2: Run npm install to install “string-format”

cd actions/my-action
npm install --production

Step 2: Deploy a zip action

./wskdeploy -i -p actions/my-zip-action/         ____      ___                   _    _ _     _     _
        /\   \    / _ \ _ __   ___ _ __ | |  | | |__ (_)___| | __
   /\  /__\   \  | | | | '_ \ / _ \ '_ \| |  | | '_ \| / __| |/ /
  /  \____ \  /  | |_| | |_) |  __/ | | | |/\| | | | | \__ \   <
  \   \  /  \/    \___/| .__/ \___|_| |_|__/\__|_| |_|_|___/_|\_\
   \___\/              |_|Packages:
Name: zipaction
    bindings:
  * action: my-zip-action
    bindings:
        - name: name value: AmyDo you really want to deploy this? (y/N): y
Deployment completed successfully.

We have deployed a zip action my-zip-action with dependent npm module string-format. When you specify a directory location in Whisk Deploy manifest file for function key under action, Whisk Deploy creates a zip file based on that directory and creates an action with that zip file for us so that we dont have to maintain a zip file in our file system. Now, you can invoke this action just like any other OpenWhisk action.

Enjoy!