eks-anywhere VS OpenFaaS

I'd suggest move from rancher to EKS Anywhere and the respective Cluster API providers... Self-managed node pools on top of bottlerocket can be established using common terraform-aws-eks module, otherwise.

There are plenty of vendor specific bugs, like no EBS in [EKS Fargate](https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/1113), and settling a Kubernetes cluster on top of Bottlerocket and [EKS Anywhere](https://github.com/aws/eks-anywhere), on your own is somewhat impossible.

> It has no init system.

Apologies that I can't link directly to the "--init" flag but docker actually does have an init, it's just (err, was?) compiled into the binary: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/run/#op...

My recollection is that it either adopted, or inspired, https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init#readme which folks used to put into their Dockerfile as the init system back in the day

Folks (ahem, I'm looking at you, eks-anywhere[0]) who bundle systemd into a docker container are gravely misguided, and the ones which do so for the ability to launch sshd alongside the actual container's main process are truly, truly lost

0: https://github.com/aws/eks-anywhere/issues/838#issuecomment-...

EKS anywhere looks like an adventure - https://anywhere.eks.amazonaws.com

That brings us to the end of this walkthrough. Thank you very much for reading and I hope you will give EKS Anywhere a spin. The complete documentation is available here. If you are interested in contributing, please open an issue or pull request on the EKS Anywhere GitHub repo. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. If you have more questions, feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or Twitter.

EKS Engineer here. This is something we have lots of thoughts about and want to make better in EKS on AWS.

For EKS Anywhere, you can configure your cluster with OIDC auth today, and IAM auth is coming very soon. https://github.com/aws/eks-anywhere/issues/90

Not yet but it's a request we've heard from beta testers. Would love to hear what you need in a GitHub issue so we can prioritize additional providers. https://github.com/aws/eks-anywhere/issues

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

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

OpenFaaS - https://www.openfaas.com

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.

OpenFAAS or FN Project are options

Closest thing I can think of is https://www.openfaas.com (which runs on top of K8s).

OpenFaaS for the serverless functions

If you want to look into FaaS in selfhosted ways, take a look at OpenFaaS, which nowadays works on Kubernetes though - https://www.openfaas.com/. Note that the CE version of OpenFaaS only includes some basic autoscaling. For more complex solutions check out their paid version.