openwhisk-composer

• Running sequential compositions no longer requires the action runtime to
  contain the redis and uuid modules.
• The deploy command supports additional options:
  • --logsize and --memory to set limits for the conductor action,
  • --basic and --bearer to control the authentication method,
  • --apiversion to specify the API version of the target OpenWhisk instance.
• The deploy method supports passing through httpOptions.
• A workaround for Webpack has been implemented (dependency analysis of the
  conductor code).
• The openwhisk-client-js module has been updated to version 3.20.0.
• The documentation has been improved.

• Annotate conductor actions with the provide-api-key annotation.
• Add --kind and --timeout flags to deploy command.
• Add --file and -o flags to compose command.
• Update documentation.

• Add new parallel and map combinators to run compositions in parallel using a Redis instance to store intermediate results.
• Add dynamic combinator to invoke an action with a name chosen at run time.
• Add option to bypass TLS certificate validation failures (off by default).
• Add API to generate the conductor action code from a composition.
• Add control over needle options and logging.

Initial release as an Apache Incubator project