We will try the echoit function to hello world with OpenFaaS. First, clone the project from https://github.com/openfaas/faas with one level of depth to just make the clone process quicker:

$ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openfaas/faas

Then, change the directory into faas, and simply deploy the OpenFaaS default stack, using the following command:

$ cd faas
$ docker stack deploy -c docker-compose.yml func

Wait until the stack is going up. Then, we do hello world with the curl command:

$ curl -d "hello world." -v http://localhost:8080/function/func_echoit
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8080 (#0)
> POST /function/func_echoit HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:8080
> User-Agent: curl/7.47.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 12
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> 
* upload completely sent off: 12 out of 12 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Length: 12
< Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
< Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:37:30 GMT
< X-Call-Id: 866c9294-e243-417c-827c-fe0683c652cd
< X-Duration-Seconds: 0.000886
< X-Start-Time: 1521823050543598099
< 
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
hello world.

After playing around it, we could also use docker stack rm to remove all running services:

$ docker stack rm func