<p>According to <a href="https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this GitHub readme</a> </p>

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  <p>OpenWhisk is a serverless event-based programming service.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>In order to get an idea how to setup this tool on a cluster one could run the following code that is defined in the readme:</p>

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<pre><code># Clone openwhisk
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk.git openwhisk

# Change directory to tools/vagrant
cd openwhisk/tools/vagrant

# Run script to create vm and run hello action
./hello
</code></pre>
</blockquote>

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What is OpenWhisk and how to setup a cluster using this technology?
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# What is OpenWhisk and how to setup a cluster using this technology?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-08-13)

On IBM bluemix platform it is possible to write cloud functions using OpenWhisk, but what is OpenWhisk and how to setup a cluster using this technology?

**Tags:** serverless, ibm-cloud, openwhisk

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/OpenWhisk+Project+Wiki  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2017-11-26. Score: 1

According to this GitHub readme 

OpenWhisk is a serverless event-based programming service.

In order to get an idea how to setup this tool on a cluster one could run the following code that is defined in the readme:

# Clone openwhisk
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk.git openwhisk

# Change directory to tools/vagrant
cd openwhisk/tools/vagrant

# Run script to create vm and run hello action
./hello


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