This openwhisk-catalog maintains the package catalogs of openwhisk. In OpenWhisk, the catalog of packages gives you an easy way to enhance your app with useful capabilities, and to access external services in the ecosystem. Examples of external services that are OpenWhisk-enabled include IBM Watson API, the Weather Company, Slack, and GitHub.system packages and sample packages.
The catalog is available as packages in the /whisk.system
namespace. See Browsing packages
for information about how to browse the catalog by using the command line tool.
- openwhisk is installed.
- Environment variable
OPENWHISK_HOME
is configured as the path toopenwhisk
source code directory.
We should be able to run the script installCatalog.sh to install the catalog like:
./installCatalog.sh <catalog_auth_key> <api_host> <catalog_namespace>
The first argument <catalog_auth_key>, defines the secret key used to authenticate the openwhisk service. The second argument <api_host>, determines the location, where the openwhisk edge host is running, in the format of IP or hostname. The third argument <catalog_namespace>, specifies the namespace used for all the actions and packages.
Package | Description |
---|---|
/whisk.system/github |
offers a convenient way to use the GitHub APIs. |
/whisk.system/samples |
offers sample actions in different languages |
/whisk.system/slack |
offers a convenient way to use the Slack APIs. |
/whisk.system/utils |
offers utilities actions such as cat, echo, and etc. |
/whisk.system/watson |
offers a convenient way to call various Watson APIs. |
/whisk.system/weather |
offers a convenient way to call the IBM Weather Insights API. |
If you want to create your own packages, openwhisk-package-template is a good package creation template to help you build, test and integrate new packages.
For more details about how to use these packages, you can go to the README.md under each package folder.