This lab provides hands-on experience with Serverless Architecture, FaaS, Apache OpenWhisk, OpenShift and how IoT use case like Smart Asset Management can use these technologies. Working through the various exercises in this lab, you learned about how to:

  • Deploy Apache OpenWhisk and learning how to interact with it using CLI

  • Deploy MongoDB and seeding it with documents

  • Creating OpenWhisk Actions in JavaScript and Node.js

  • Creating Trigger, Package and Rules

  • Chaining Actions into a Sequence

  • Working with Geofence

  • Deploying IoT Components

  • Working with Feeds and Providers

  • Deploying Software Sensor Application

  • Visualizing data through UI

Next Steps

All the components that were built this lab can be automated using Ansible playbooks. The repo (https://github.com/sabre1041/iot-serverless) provides instructions on how to deploy this lab with a few easy steps.

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