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+Watchdog
+==========
+
+The FaaS watchdog is designed to marshal a HTTP request between your public HTTP URL and a individual function.
+
+Creating a function:
+
+- [x] Use an existing or a new Docker image
+- [x] Add the fwatchdog binary from the [Releases page](https://github.com/alexellis/faas/releases) via `curl` or `ADD https://`
+- [x] Set an `fprocess` environmental variable with the function you want to run for each request
+- [x] Expose port 8080
+- [x] Set the `CMD` to `fwatchdog`
+
+Example Dockerfile:
+
+```
+FROM alpine:3.5
+
+ADD https://github.com/alexellis/faas/releases/download/v0.5-alpha/fwatchdog /usr/bin
+RUN chmod +x /usr/bin/fwatchdog
+
+# Define your UNIX binary here
+ENV fprocess="/bin/cat"
+
+CMD ["fwatchdog"]
+```
+
+**Environmental overrides:**
+
+A number of environmental overrides can be added for additional flexibility and options:
+
+| Option                 | Usage             |
+|------------------------|--------------|
+| `fprocess`     | The process to invoke for each function call. This must be a UNIX binary and accept input via STDIN and output via STDOUT.  |
+| `marshal_requests`     | Instead of re-directing the raw HTTP body into your fprocess, it will first be marshalled into JSON. Use this if you need to work with HTTP headers |
+| `write_timeout`     | HTTP timeout for writing a response body from your function  |
+| `read_timeout`     | HTTP timeout for reading the payload from the client caller  |