Playing with OpenFaaS: a Serverless Framework for Docker and Kubernetes
a project by pgeorgiadis
Updated over 3 years ago. 3 hacker ♥️.

OpenFaaS - Functions as a Service

Get familiar with one of the hottest topics for this year: https://www.openfaas.com/

openFaaS

OpenFaaS (Functions as a Service) is a framework for building serverless functions with Docker which has first class support for metrics. Any process can be packaged as a function enabling you to consume a range of web events without repetitive boiler-plate coding.

Requirements:

  • Setup SUSE CaaSP 2.0 (k8s 1.7> is required)
  • Install faas-cli
  • Install the k8s Package Manager - Helm
  • Install faas-netes

Goals:

  • Create an openFaaS SUSE Docker image in DockerHub
  • Convert some binaries into functions
  • Write some functions
  • Try to scale those functions
  • See how function chaining works

Extra:

  • Try to package this project in OBS for Tumbleweed
  • Convert if possible some of the internal QA Maintenance tools into Functions running in K8s
  • Write blog post about it
  • Contribute to upstream

Blog Post: http://panosgeorgiadis.com/blog/2017/11/08/how-to-start-with-openfaas/

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  • almost 8 years ago: pgeorgiadis added keyword "golang" to this project.
  • almost 8 years ago: pgeorgiadis added keyword "python" to this project.
  • almost 8 years ago: pgeorgiadis added keyword "cloud" to this project.
  • almost 8 years ago: pgeorgiadis originated this project.


    • Comments

    • hennevogel
      almost 8 years ago by hennevogel | Reply

      Sounds cool are you willing to have a co-hacker? :-)

      • pgeorgiadis
        almost 8 years ago by pgeorgiadis | Reply

        That would be AWESOME :D

        • hennevogel
          almost 8 years ago by hennevogel | Reply

          Awesome, you're in the Nürnberg office right? :-) Let's meet on Friday!

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