User interface

There is no open source portal for OpenWhisk at the time of writing. To make it easier for developers to use OpenWhisk, I'm developing a UI portal for it. SuraWhisk is an open source project hosted on GitHub. Its source can be found at https://github.com/surawhisk/ui. If you do not want to look at the source code, you can just start the UI from a ready-to-use Docker image.

First, create a volume to store the settings data. Endpoints and their API keys for authentication will be stored there in the volume:

$ docker volume create surawhisk_vol

Then the UI can be run using the following command:

$ docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -v surawhisk_vol:/root/data surawhisk/ui

After SuraWhisk UI starts, point the browser to http://localhost:8080. The UI's navigation bar on the left-hand side currently contains three basic items: settings, actions, and namespaces.

The Settings page, as shown in Figure 6.3, is for setting up an OpenWhisk endpoint and its API key. The SuraWhisk container is running...