OpenFaaS Alternatives

Similar projects and alternatives to OpenFaaS

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a better OpenFaaS alternative or higher similarity.

OpenFaaS reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenFaaS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-19.
  • I need a custom resource somewhere between a job and cron job -- does it exist?
    5 projects | /r/kubernetes | 19 Apr 2023
    OpenFaaS - https://www.openfaas.com
  • Questions for Heroku-like Project
    6 projects | /r/kubernetes | 12 Mar 2023
    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 ?
    3 projects | /r/serverless | 5 Mar 2023
  • Any self-hosted equivalent to AWS Lambdas?
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 25 Feb 2023
    OpenFAAS or FN Project are options
  • Is it possible to self-host a lambda or lamda-like service
    5 projects | /r/aws | 3 Feb 2023
    Closest thing I can think of is https://www.openfaas.com (which runs on top of K8s).
  • Building a RESTful API With Functions
    9 projects | dev.to | 29 Jan 2023
    OpenFaaS for the serverless functions
  • Running auto-scalling docker services
    6 projects | /r/docker | 3 Jan 2023
    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.
  • run a RestAPI on Every container?
    2 projects | /r/microservices | 8 Nov 2022
    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.
  • Helm Intro and Cheatsheet
    8 projects | dev.to | 10 Oct 2022
    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.
  • Bots-garden/capsule – the nano (WASM) functions runner
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2022
    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.).

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Basic OpenFaaS repo stats
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openfaas/faas is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

OpenFaaS is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.

The primary programming language of OpenFaaS is Go.

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