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Published inJun 2020
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Gigi Sayfan
Gigi Sayfan
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Gigi Sayfan

Gigi Sayfan has been developing software for 25+ years in domains as diverse as instant messaging, morphing, chip fabrication process control, embedded multimedia applications for game consoles, brain-inspired ML, custom browser development, web services for 3D distributed game platforms, IoT sensors, virtual reality, and genomics. He has written production code in languages such as Go, Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Delphi, JavaScript, and even Cobol and PowerBuilder for operating systems such as Windows (3.11 through 7), Linux, macOS, Lynx (embedded), and Sony PlayStation. His technical expertise includes databases, low-level networking, distributed systems, containers, unorthodox user interfaces, modern web applications, and general SDLC.
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Kubernetes FaaS frameworks

Let's acknowledge the elephant in the room – FaaS. The Kubernetes Job and CronJob are great, and having cluster autoscaling and cloud providers managing the infrastructure is awesome. Knative, with its scale-to-zero and traffic routing functionalities, is super cool. But what about actual FaaS? Fear not – Kubernetes has many options here. Maybe too many options. There are more than ten FaaS frameworks for Kubernetes:

  • Fission
  • Kubeless
  • FaaS
  • OpenWhisk
  • Riff (built on top of Knative)
  • Nuclio
  • Funktion
  • BlueNimble
  • Fn
  • Gestalt
  • Rainbond
  • IronFunctions

We will look into a few of the more popular options.

Fission

Fission (https://fission.io/) is a mature and well-documented framework. It models the FaaS world as environments, functions, and triggers. Environments are needed to build and run your function code for the specific languages. Each language environment...

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Published in: Jun 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781839211256

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Gigi Sayfan

Gigi Sayfan has been developing software for 25+ years in domains as diverse as instant messaging, morphing, chip fabrication process control, embedded multimedia applications for game consoles, brain-inspired ML, custom browser development, web services for 3D distributed game platforms, IoT sensors, virtual reality, and genomics. He has written production code in languages such as Go, Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Delphi, JavaScript, and even Cobol and PowerBuilder for operating systems such as Windows (3.11 through 7), Linux, macOS, Lynx (embedded), and Sony PlayStation. His technical expertise includes databases, low-level networking, distributed systems, containers, unorthodox user interfaces, modern web applications, and general SDLC.
Read more about Gigi Sayfan