Installing OpenFaaS on macOS

OpenFaaS is a serverless framework for building and deploying applications. In this tutorial, we will guide you through how to install OpenFaaS on your macOS environment.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with installation, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed:

• Docker for macOS
• Docker Compose

Install OpenFaaS

1. Open a terminal window on your macOS system.

2. Clone the OpenFaaS repository on your machine.

git clone https://github.com/openfaas/faas 

3. Navigate to the cloned OpenFaaS repository:

cd faas 

4. Use Docker Compose to deploy OpenFaaS.

sudo sh -c "curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openfaas/faas/master/docker-compose.yml > docker-compose.yml" 

5. Now, deploy OpenFaaS:

sudo docker-compose up -d 

6. Verify that OpenFaaS is up and running:

sudo docker ps -a 

You should see the OpenFaaS containers running on your machine.

7. Install the OpenFaaS CLI:

curl -sL https://cli.openfaas.com | sudo sh 

8. Set the gateway URL for the OpenFaaS CLI:

export OPENFAAS_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8080 

9. To test if OpenFaaS is set up correctly, use the command:

echo -n "input" | faas-cli invoke lowercase 

This command should return "input" in lowercase.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed OpenFaaS on your macOS system.

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