deckhouse VS OpenFaaS

And while k3s sounds easy, it's not after even a slightly larger scale.

If one willing to have in-house k8s today I would recommend https://deckhouse.io/ (I'm not affiliated with them)

Deckhouse

Check Deckhouse as well (https://github.com/deckhouse/deckhouse). Cilium integration was added there recently.

Release Deckhouse v1.26.0 · deckhouse/deckhouse (github.com)

Consider Deckhouse as another option that can be installed everywhere: bare metal, private and public clouds. It has an Open Source core offered in Community Edition, but the pricing for Enterprise Edition is also a fit for small companies. All configuration is made via Custom Resources, all routines (like updating Kubernetes versions and related system components) are automated.

We use cert-manager in our K8s platform for years and it works perfectly. I don't think there is any chance today to compete with it in terms of community adoption. I also can't find any GitHub links for your project which is the most widely accepted way to become trusted by the community — simply because it covers all the basic needs everyone got used to (in the Open Source world): we can see how the code is developed, we can contribute to it, discuss the issues and concerns we have, etc.

We use Vector to ship logs to different storages (including Loki). You can even find the implementation here, however, I am not sure how useful it might be since it's quite specific (Golang hooks for addon-operator). Our manifests are available there as well.

Serverless functions are now offered by many cloud providers, as well as having options like OpenFaaS, Knative, Apache's Openwhisk and more from the open source community that run in environments ranging from one server all the way up to globally replicated private clusters.

OpenFaaS

Did you consider running knative or openfaas? https://github.com/openfaas/faas

Anyone knows other alternatives for Azure Functions, but for DIY hosting? ( eg. OpenFaas - https://www.openfaas.com/ )

Maybe OpenFaaS with grafana and slack notifications for non-200 responses?

OpenFaaS - https://www.openfaas.com

By the way, if your organization is leveraging EKS as a platform and your DevOps team is willing to enable this operator, there's an exciting tool called OpenFaaS. Essentially, it enables you to host your Lambda functions on your own infrastructure instead of relying on the public cloud provider.

This is where I see K8S coming in – teachers can provide dev deployments that are setup for students to learn. Teachers can also provide containers that run automated tests against the student containers for assessment! Plus, we can smooth over some of the git workflow stuff for the ripest of beginners; we can integrate with github to sync their work on our platform to repositories on their github account, so that they can really take ownership of the work they do on the platform. Last, students can graduate their work from development into production very easily, since we can take the base images + student diffs, build a new "prod" image for the student. We can run students' prod work on "serverless" K8S frameworks like fission or OpenFaas to be able to host many low-traffic "production" apps at the same time.