OpenWhisk is an incubator project of Apache and IBM. It offers an open source and on-cloud serverless platform through the IBM Bluemix portal. We can set this up on premises or directly use the cloud model. The commercial side of OpenWhisk is provided by IBM on Bluemix, and the open source version can be provisioned as on-premises Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS), as well as on a cloud, such as Bluemix, Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, or GCP. The open source version is available on GitHub. It is been made public through the Apache license, and people can contribute to it.
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For the open source OpenWhisk version on GitHub, go to https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/tree/master/docs#getting-started-with-openwhisk.
Like any other serverless offering, OpenWhisk executes small chunks of codes that are called actions (that is, functions) at the triggering of events. Events can originate from Bluemix or external sources. It is also claimed by OpenWhisk that it allows the integration...