CORS and OpenWhisk web actions
AKRABAT By default, OpenWhisk will handle the relevant responses for CORS. Specifically, it will respond to an OPTION request with these headers: Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Access-Control-Allow-Methods: OPTIONS, GET, DELETE, POST, PUT,…
CLI credentials for a Cloud Foundry database
AKRABAT If you need access to your Cloud Foundry database from the command line the easiest way to get a set of credentials is to create a service key. This…
Using PostgreSQL with PHP in Cloud Foundry
AKRABAT Having successfully deployed a PHP application to Cloud Foundry, I needed a PostgreSQL database for persistent storage. I found Lorna Mitchell's Connecting PHP to MySQL on Bluemix helpful and…
Deploying a PHP application to Cloud Foundry
AKRABAT I recently had a requirement to deploy a Slim application somewhere. As I already have a Bluemix account, it seemed sensible to deploy it to their Application Runtimes service…
Adding a user to your Bluemix space
AKRABAT I'm at the stage where I need to give another developer access to my IBM Cloud Functions actions. I'm not really an infrastructure person and I found the user…
Added a user to your Bluemix space
AKRABAT I'm at the stage where I need to give another developer access to my IBM Cloud Functions actions. I'm not really an infrastructure person and I found the user…
Getting started with Serverless PHP
AKRABAT I've been interested in Apache OpenWhisk for a little while now and recently submitted a new feature to add PHP support to the project. As OpenWhisk is a serverless…
Logging in to Bluemix via wsk
AKRABAT To set up the authentication for the OpenWhisk cli tool wsk you do this: $ wsk property set --apihost {host} --auth {key} > /dev/null $ wsk property unset --namespace…
Creating an OpenWhisk Alexa skill
AKRABAT In a previous post, I looked at the mechanics of how to create an Alexa skill to tell me which colour bin I needed to put out next. I'll…
Getting started writing an Alexa Skill
AKRABAT We now have 4 Amazon Echo devices in the house, and, inspired by a demo LornaJane gave me at DPC, I have decided to write some skills for it.…