In this page we introduce a serverless computing framework called OpenFaaS, which promises to help developers to deploy event-driven functions and microservices to Kubernetes without repetitive, boiler-plate coding.

Vagrant and VirtualBox are the only dependencies that need to be available in your host.

In Windows:

• Install Chocolate: https://chocolatey.org/install

• Install Vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

• Install VirtualBox v6.0: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

• Open PowerShell and run:

> choco install vagrant

In Mac & Linux:

You should be able to download the installation files for your operating system:

• Install Vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
• Install VirtualBox v6.0: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Note: It is also possible to use libvirt, but we encourage you to use virtualbox for this tutorial.

After cloning this repository, open your favourite shell and navigate to the folder containing the Vagrantfile. Then you can run the following command to spin up the playground:

> vagrant up --provision --provider [virtualbox | libvirt]

Note: Vagrant will request to allocate 3 cpus and 4GB of memory for the machine.

Once it is done, verify that you can ssh into the machine:

> vagrant ssh

Make sure that the OpenFaaS dashboard and Grafana are working by opening a web browser and navigating to http://127.0.0.1:31112 and http://127.0.0.1:31113 respectively.

After you have finished the tutorial, you may destroy the virtual machine using:

> vagrant destroy