If you are interested in serverless computing / Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS), and are not following the OpenShift blog, you should checkout The State of Functions-as-a-Service on Kubernetes. This video is part of the OpenShift Commons Briefing series, which has a lot of great content for developers who interested in cloud-native applications and microservices running on OpenShift and Kubernetes.
FaaS, or serverless as some call it, is a promising compute paradigm suitable for event-driven scenarios. In this briefing, Red Hat’s Michael Hausenblas and Brian Gracely reviewed the current open source offerings for FaaS on Kubernetes (Apache Open Whisk, kubeless, OpenFaaS, etc.) and discussed the pros and cons, on an architectural level and a user experience (UX) point of view. They also covered the topic FaaS vs. containers from a developers as well as an operators perspective.
This talk builds on material gathered by the Serverless Working Group , which is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). CNCF serves as the vendor-neutral home for many of the fastest-growing projects on GitHub, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy.
Video, slides, and other resources:
State of FaaS on Kubernetes - Michael Hausenblas (Red Hat)
Access the slides from this presentation: State of FaaS Function-as-a-Service on Kubernetes
Additional FaaS Resources:
- CNCF Serverless Working Group
- FaaS on Kubernetes inventory
- The State of OpenWhisk
- Demo video OpenWhisk on OpenShift
- https://github.com/projectodd/openwhisk-openshift
- https://github.com/redhat-developer-demos/ow-scf-fruiteason
- https://github.com/kameshsampath/infinispan-feed-action
You can follow the OpenShift Blog at blog.openshift.com.
Last updated: June 7, 2023