Deployment guide for the Docker Playground (PWD)

    Go to and log in with your Docker Hub account

    This will create a new 4 hour session with access to all of docker's features in your browser

    Once logged in, click the "+ ADD NEW INSTANCE" link on the right-hand side

    This will open a console with Docker ready to run

    1.0 Initialize Swarm Mode

    In the console, run the swarm command to initialize Swarm mode

    Highlight the join token command that is output and right-click - "copy" (we'll need that to join additional worker nodes)

    In the new console, right-click and paste the join token command that was just copied

    Repeat these steps for as many workers as you would like.

    2.0 Deploy the stack

    Go back to the master node by clicking the first button on the right-side menu

    In the console, clone OpenFaaS and deploy the stack by copy/pasting the following command:

    1.   cd faas && \
    2.   ./deploy_stack.sh

    Info

    Basic authentication is now enabled by default for your protection so note down your credentials. If you need to disable it pass the flag —no-auth to the ./deploy_stack.sh command above.

    Within a few seconds (or minutes depending on PWD's load at the time) the API gateway will be deployed and you will be able to access the UI

    Once the command is complete, you will notice two links appear at the top of the page with port numbers

    and 9090

    To view the OpenFaaS UI, simply click the link.

    This will open a new tab in your browser with the UI from your PWD Swarm cluster

    The 9090 link will open the Prometheus console UI. More on that in the Auto-scaling section

    3.0 Start the hands-on labs

    Learn how to build serverless functions with OpenFaaS and Python in our half-day workshop. You can follow along online at your own pace.

    If you are running into any issues please check out the troubleshooting guide and search the documentation / past issues before raising an issue.