Replicate binding service credentials to functions

[jthomas]

Available through bx wsk service bind

[jthomas]

This feature has now been implemented.

https://github.com/serverless/serverless-openwhisk#binding-services-ibm-cloud-functions

[pneuschwander]

@jthomas That's great, thanks! Can we bind multiple services (e.g. messagehub AND cloudant) and how would that look like in the yml?

[jthomas]

@regmebaby absolutely, see example here:

functions:
  my_function:
    handler: file_name.handler    
    bind:
      - service:
          name: cloud-object-storage
          instance: my-cos-storage
      - service:
          name: another_service
          instance: my-instance-name

Couple of caveats...

• you can't bind more than one instance of the same service (so no binding two instances of different object stores).
• each service bind config shell outs to a separate CLI command run in sequence. if you have multiple service bindings shared between functions, put them onto a package to speed things up.