Installation

This guide will walk you through the steps to install Faast.

Prerequisites

• A Linux machine (x86_64) with a recent version of the Linux kernel (>= 4.15).
• KVM must be installed on your machine.
• A recent version of Docker (>= 18.09) installed on your machine if you want to use Docker.

Get Faast

Download the docker image (recommended)

You can download the latest docker image of Faast from the Docker Hub:

docker pull faastrt/lambdo

You can also build the docker image from the source code:

git clone https://github.com/faast-rt/lambdo
cd lambdo
docker build -t faastrt/lambdo .

Download from the latest release

You can download the latest release of Faast from the releases page (opens in a new tab).

curl -O https://github.com/faast-rt/lambdo/releases/latest/download/lambdo-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
tar xvf lambdo-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz

Build from source

You can build Faast from the source code.

• You will need to install Rust (via Rustup) and the musl target.
• You will need to install the pkg-config libudev-dev protobuf-compiler package on your system.

git clone https://github.com/faast-rt/lambdo
cd lambdo
cargo build -p api --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl

The binary will be available at target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/release/api.