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Deploy Function to a Remote Server

Creating functions on our local machine limits its usage to our local server. To make your functions globally available, PhotonIQ offers its geo-distributed GDN servers to store and serve your functions to users, ensuring availability.

Furthermore, the highly distributed nature of the GDN means every function is georeplicated in all regions in the fabric. Thus, function processing occurs at the closest point of presence to the user, ensuring faster performance for real-time use cases. This short guide walks you through deploying your functions to a remote server.

Prerequisites​

  • Contact Macrometa personnel to get authentication credentials for accessing the PhotonIQ remote server. You will need:
    • API_KEY
    • URL
  • A FaaS function. Follow this guide to create and test a function.

Deploying and Execute Functions to Remote PhotonIQ Server​

To deploy a function to a remote PhotonIQ server:

  1. Enter the faas remote deploy command in your terminal. The testFunction represents our function name. 
./faas remote deploy testFunction
  1. Once deployed, execute the remote function using the remote execute command:
./faas remote execute testFunction

Delete Function​

To delete our function from the remote server, use the ./faas remote delete command

./faas remote delete testFunction