fission VS Ory Kratos

Fission

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.

I use https://fission.io/ on Kubernetes to emulate AWS Lambda + API Gateway to run Python functions. I use their YAML Spec functionality to deploy functions. It works well for my use case.

After doing a lot of research, I ended up settling on the Fission.io framework to support this project. Fission is an open-source Serverless framework running in kubernetes. Think AWS Lambdas, but we are in control of every part of the infrastructure. Kubernetes gives us the power to define the environments the containers will be executed in, and any other resources they need. This gives us the control we need to be able to create our very own environment for executing arbitrary JavaScript through the V8 engine. Each function can be isolated as much as we need to and Fission is really great at giving us the ability to quickly create multiple environments.

Nope. I was using https://fission.io/

There are a lot of FaaS service offerings out there namely Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions to name a few. While these offerings run on their respective clouds, there are services like Fission that are open source and allow you to deploy and execute functions on Kubernetes clusters irrespective of where they reside.

Fission

It's super slow (20-50 rps), please try this instead : https://github.com/fission/fission (few hundreds to few thousands rps)

I was expecting hydra / kratos to show up as an alternative.. but did not see any. Does any have any experience, good or bad about it?

https://github.com/ory/kratos

I think it would be fair to say that kratos was not the priority in 2022 in terms of code you can see not much was commited (https://github.com/ory/kratos/graphs/code-frequency) so I might have had a bad first impression.

A few issues on kratos that I consider relatively important are still missing / nobody from Ory is giving their input so it's hard to make progress and I would not take my time to contribute if I dont know if the owner are going to merge it.

An example that comes to mind is the OAuth email auto-verification or the search of users that is still super basic (we only recently got the filter of identifiers).

IMO it's almost always good to offer some OIDC social login, just depends what provider your users use.

- https://github.com/ory/kratos

Check out the milestone on github: https://github.com/ory/kratos/milestone/15

not sure if that is everything.

An open source solution pre-built from professionals like Ory Kratos or Keycloak saves you a lot of time and pain.

https://github.com/ory/kratos