Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform
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Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform
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Re: Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform
#2If anyone else was wondering, this seems to originate from IBM in collaboration with Adobe. More information on the architecture here: https://thenewstack.io/behind-scenes-apache-openwhisk-server...
Re: Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform
#3Excellent, more competition in serverless means increased adoption. Even better if it is open source, in contrast to GOOG/AMZN/MSFT offerings! Seems like an undercutting attempt on the IBM side?
Could someone with production-level serverless experience share his insights on OpenWhisk capabilities and roadmap? What's missing from the G/A/M stacks?
Re: Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform
#4I have been interested in running a serverless setup for a while now, so I’ve been looking at different open source alternatives to AWS lambda. I considered OpenWhisk but felt IronFunctions would be quicker to setup and easier to run.
Anyone has experience deploying/using both? Would anyone that is running OpenWhisk comment on the process to get it running?
Re: Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform
#5Since it's serverless, I assume it runs on the client. How does it scale then? And is the client really the right place to run these functions, in view of performance, and perhaps battery use?
Re: Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform
#6If you're run k8s on your infrastructure there's a pretty slick alternative called Open FaaS: https://github.com/openfaas/faas
Re: Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform
#7I have been interested in running a serverless setup for a while now, so I’ve been looking at different open source alternatives to AWS lambda. I considered OpenWhisk but felt IronFunctions would be quicker to setup and easier to run. Anyone has experience deploying/using both? Would anyone that is running OpenWhisk comment on the process to get it running?
Self plug but https://github.com/1backend/1backend literally needs just 4 docker containers to run.
They are in the ReadMe, let me know what you think of it.
It contains a bunch of unique features, so it's not your typical serverless platform, but the core is the same if you don't want to go crazy with the web framework like features.
Re: Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform
#8If you're run k8s on your infrastructure there's a pretty slick alternative called Open FaaS: https://github.com/openfaas/faas
There are a number of alternatives targeting Kubernetes. I work on one - Project Riff. Others I've peeked at are Kubeless, Fission and Fn. Some are pure k8s systems (like Riff) and others like OpenFaaS aim to be portable across orchestrators.
I believe OpenWhisk is being steered towards running on Kubernetes at some point, but I am not qualified to say. When we looked at it last year as part of the research which led to Riff, we were struck mostly by how many moving parts are involved.
Disclosure: As I noted, I work on one of these things for Pivotal.
Re: Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform
#9I have been interested in running a serverless setup for a while now, so I’ve been looking at different open source alternatives to AWS lambda. I considered OpenWhisk but felt IronFunctions would be quicker to setup and easier to run. Anyone has experience deploying/using both? Would anyone that is running OpenWhisk comment on the process to get it running?
OpenWhisk can be started using Docker Compose locally with a single command (make quickstart) using this repo: https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-devtools/tree/...
It can also be deployed on k8s with minimal effort: https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-deploy-kube
There's also instructions for using VMs as the infrastructure layer: https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk#quick-start
If you have any issues open an issue or join us on the slack (http://openwhisk.incubator.apache.org/slack.html).
(I'm a committer on the project).
Re: Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform
#10Since it's serverless, I assume it runs on the client. How does it scale then? And is the client really the right place to run these functions, in view of performance, and perhaps battery use?
serverless means that the server is abstract it away from you, you just have scripts that run and if it needs to run grow to more servers it will do by itself