From 57317167b1d5f3b599f77167386cb83768cc549f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Ellis Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 17:53:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f750630f..102e44f4 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ -# faas -Functions as a service +# faas - Functions As A Service + +This project provides a way to run Docker containers as functions on Swarm Mode. + +* Each container has a watchdog process that hosts a web server allowing a JSON post request to be fowarded to a desired process via STDIN. The respose is sent to the caller via STDOUT. +* A gateway provides a view to the containers/functions to the public Internet and collects metrics for Prometheus and in a future version will manage replicas and scale as throughput increases. Minimum requirements: Docker 1.13