{"id":206,"date":"2021-03-09T21:15:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrejacobs.org\/?p=206"},"modified":"2022-04-11T20:24:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:24:24","slug":"100-days-of-learning-day-1-notion-and-faas-cli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrejacobs.org\/100-days-challenge\/100-days-of-learning-day-1-notion-and-faas-cli\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Days of Learning: Day 1 \u2013 Notion and faas-cli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@filipbaotic?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Filip Baoti\u0107<\/a> on <a href=\"\/s\/photos\/notion?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-markdown\"><p>Today I decided to first take a small detour by learning about using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notion.so\/\">Notion<\/a>. Why? So that I can take better notes and share it with other people. <strong>I am really glad I did!<\/strong> Notion is the tool I have wanted all this time. Seriously give it a go.<\/p>\n<p>In fact Notion is so good, that I am convinced it has just become my default note taking app as well as where I write my initial blog posts on.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/andrejacobs\/100DayChallenges\/blob\/main\/2021%20March\/100DaysOfLearning\/100DaysOfLearning.md\">Log book<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Notion<\/h2>\n<p>Quick summary of what I discovered<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Block based editor<\/li>\n<li>Type \/ and then you can choose a block type (e.g. Heading 2, bullet list)<\/li>\n<li>Pages can have sub pages (infinitely)<\/li>\n<li>Highlight text to get a styling menu<\/li>\n<li>Blocks can be reordered by dragging the :: (well actually 6 dots)<\/li>\n<li>You can build templates to make it easier to add new pages<\/li>\n<li>Can do Kanban boards with the Task List template<\/li>\n<li>Has the concept of a Database view. <strong>Spreadsheets++<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Can import markdown, html, csv etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Powerful Sharing<\/strong> and permissions are available<\/li>\n<li>Can <strong>Export<\/strong> to markdown, PDF etc. &lt;<strong>&#8212; LOVE THIS!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Installing faas-cli on my Mac<\/h2>\n<p>First need to spin up the Ubuntu instance I created yesterday<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-bash\">$ multipass list\nName                    State             IPv4             Image\nfaasd                   Stopped           --               Ubuntu 20.04 LTS\n                                                                                      [20:22:44]\n$ multipass start faasd\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Check the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/openfaas\/faas-cli\">faas-cli<\/a> documentation on various ways to install it. I prefer to use brew on my Mac so will be using brew<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-bash\">$ brew install faas-cli\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Verify<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-bash\">$ faas-cli version\n  ___                   _____           ____\n \/ _ \\ _ __   ___ _ __ |  ___|_ _  __ _\/ ___|\n| | | | '_ \\ \/ _ \\ '_ \\| |_ \/ _` |\/ _` \\___ \\\n| |_| | |_) |  __\/ | | |  _| (_| | (_| |___) |\n \\___\/| .__\/ \\___|_| |_|_|  \\__,_|\\__,_|____\/\n      |_|\n\nCLI:\n commit:  6b5e7a14a598527063c7c05fb4187739b6eb6d38\n version: 0.13.6\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The nice thing about multipass is that the instance will be restarted and still use the same IP address.<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-bash\">$ multipass list\nName                    State             IPv4             Image\nfaasd                   Running           192.168.64.4     Ubuntu 20.04 LTS\n                                          10.62.0.1\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>You will need the password for the admin user to use with <code>faas-cli<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Following on from yesterday&#8217;s configuration I will be using SSH to connect to the instance.<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-bash\">$ ssh -i ~\/.ssh\/id_rsa -o PreferredAuthentications=publickey ubuntu@192.168.64.4\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Cat out the password and save it somewhere locally on your computer. I am saving mine to &quot;~\/Learning\/faasd\/password.txt&quot;<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-bash\">ubuntu@faasd:~$ sudo cat \/var\/lib\/faasd\/secrets\/basic-auth-password ;echo\nzI24jRLe45DhUPa21S6BoNy5q1DpYUb0FuDwlLfUoBNo6yaDBMZEPTO2W3K\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Set the environment variable <code>OPENFAAS_URL<\/code> so that <code>faas-cli<\/code> knows where the faasd services is located. For now I will just enter this into the current terminal session but will add it to my zsh setup later.<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-bash\">export OPENFAAS_URL=http:\/\/192.168.64.4:8080\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Setup <code>faas-cli<\/code> to use the password.<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-bash\">cat password.txt | faas-cli login --username admin --password-stdin\n\nCalling the OpenFaaS server to validate the credentials...\nWARNING! You are not using an encrypted connection to the gateway, consider using HTTPS.\ncredentials saved for admin http:\/\/192.168.64.4:8080\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h2>Calling your FaaS<\/h2>\n<p>Yesterday I deployed the ASCII Cows function. So lets see if it is still available and if we can invoke it locally using <code>faas-cli<\/code><\/p>\n<p>First I consult the help to see if there is an easy way to list the available functions. Running <code>faas-cli help<\/code> revealed that indeed it is as simple as just using the following.<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-bash\">$ faas-cli list\nFunction                      \tInvocations    \tReplicas\ncows                          \t0              \t0\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>To get more information about the function<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-bash\">$ faas-cli describe cows\nName:                cows\nStatus:              Not Ready\nReplicas:            0\nAvailable replicas:  0\nInvocations:         0\nImage:\nFunction process:    node show_cow.js\nURL:                 http:\/\/192.168.64.4:8080\/function\/cows\nAsync URL:           http:\/\/192.168.64.4:8080\/async-function\/cows\nLabels:Annotations:%\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Lets invoke it!<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-bash\">$ echo verbose | faas-cli invoke cows\n         (__)\n         (oo)\n  \/-------\\\/\n \/ \/      \\\n* \/\/------\\\\\n  ^        ^\n  Cow jogging\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Filip Baoti\u0107 on Unsplash [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/andrejacobs.org\/100-days-challenge\/100-days-of-learning-day-1-notion-and-faas-cli\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[36],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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