A few months ago I build a Raspberry Pi cluster running K3S. I build it because I wanted to have a nice environment the learn more about Kubernetes and OpenFaas. It always feels nice to have something you can actually touch in this all software world I normally live in. After tweeting and giving a session about my OpenFaas Raspberry Pi cluster people started asking what parts the cluster consists of and what software I use to run it.

Whenever you want to create a new function to run on OpenFaas your starting point would be an OpenFaas template. OpenFaas has a template engine build-in which can create new functions in a given programming language. There are the official/default templates and there are templates in the store provided by the community. If a language you would like to use isn’t available or it doesn’t suite your needs, you can always write your own!

In my previous blog I described how to set-up OpenFaas on a Kubernetes cluster with a little help from Rancher. Now it’s time to deploy our first serverless function. In this blog we’ll create and deploy a .NET Core function that reads a bit of config using both an environment variable and Kubernetes secrets. Creating your first function In the previous blog we installed the OpenFaas cli. If you didn’t already, here are the instructions.