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OpenFaaS
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I need a custom resource somewhere between a job and cron job -- does it exist?
OpenFaaS - https://www.openfaas.com
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Questions for Heroku-like Project
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.
- Does a serverless framework exist to create SaaS apps ?
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Any self-hosted equivalent to AWS Lambdas?
OpenFAAS or FN Project are options
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Is it possible to self-host a lambda or lamda-like service
Closest thing I can think of is https://www.openfaas.com (which runs on top of K8s).
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Building a RESTful API With Functions
OpenFaaS for the serverless functions
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Running auto-scalling docker services
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.
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run a RestAPI on Every container?
The two biggest options are OpenWhisk and OpenFaas. Check out /r/serverless for more options. I'm experimenting currently with OpenFaas as it's the lighter weigh to of the two.
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Helm Intro and Cheatsheet
The other case where it may not be useful is in some internal applications. Maintaining a helm chart for an application can end up being a sizable amount of work, and they do not allow arbitrary inputs, so if you miss some key (i.e. "imagePullSecrets,") you can end up spending a lot of time key-chasing across your charts. I have heard of folks using Kustomize in such a situation, although another option is to use a meta chart (one chart for many apps) or Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) framework like Serverless, OpenFaas, Knative, etc.
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Bots-garden/capsule – the nano (WASM) functions runner
Do you want to use a FaaS or just toy with making your own? If you just want to use something check out OpenFaaS, it's very easy to get started and is well documented: https://www.openfaas.com/
If you want to build your own FaaS, I'd still explore OpenFaaS as its creator has documented a lot of its creation and you will soon discover the critical things you'll need to figure out for building your own similar service (i.e. stuff like sandboxed execution environment, API gateway, scaling up and down functions, etc.).
IronFunctions
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How boring should your team be
> Also everything was new at one time.
Hah, this is a good point, but in my eyes lots of things that were new... never really grew up and were just deprecated and died.
For example, if someone based their setup on IronFunctions, they might have run into a bit of a painful situation, seeing as the project has been largely abandoned: https://github.com/iron-io/functions
Same for a database solution like Clusterpoint, the support for which just ended and you were left to migrate away to something else: https://github.com/clusterpoint
Ergo, I'd say that it's good for others to suffer the consequences of being trend setters and making wild bets on new and risky products and to just reap the benefits of their efforts later yourself, when things are safer. If a project has survived for a reasonably long time, it's a good indicator that it'll probably keep surviving in the future as well (there was a name for this, sadly can't recall what that was).
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Show HN: Run Pi-hole on a local Kubernetes/K3s cluster
> I’m of the opinion that lambda-as-in-serverless is an evil.
Are there any other serverless solutions that you'd recommend?
Maybe a more open cloud function solution that could also be self-hosted, should the need arise?
As far as I know, OpenFaaS might serve that niche for some, though of course there will be no cloud solutions as large as Lambda available: https://github.com/openfaas/faas
Also there used to be IronFunctions, but those seem basically abandoned at this point: https://github.com/iron-io/functions
What are some alternatives?
LocalStack - 💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline
fn - The container native, cloud agnostic serverless platform.
dapr - Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge.
OpenWhisk - Apache OpenWhisk is an open source serverless cloud platform
Appwrite - Build Fast. Scale Big. All in One Place.
fx - A Function as a Service tool makes a function as a container-based service in seconds.
n8n - Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.
Vue Storefront - The open-source frontend for any eCommerce. Built with a PWA and headless approach, using a modern JS stack. We have custom integrations with Magento, commercetools, Shopware and Shopify and total coverage is just a matter of time. The API approach also allows you to merge VSF with any third-party tool like CMS, payment gateways or analytics. Newest updates: https://blog.vuestorefront.io. Always Open Source, MIT license.
nuclio - High-Performance Serverless event and data processing platform
Trusted-CGI - Lightweight runner for lambda functions/apps in CGI like mode