openwhisk

It's essentially 'set up your own servers and run a lambda-like service yourself.' Here's some documentation for OpenWhisk on Kubernetes (running locally or on your own servers or cloud providers' Kubernetes cluster meeting the requirements specified). https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-deploy-kube/bl... There are other ways OpenWhisk could be deployed besides as well (see https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/blob/master/an... ), but it appears you will need server(s) or local computer to run OpenWhisk on. I do completely agree the Apache site for the project seems lacking in terms of the deployment docs. Which is a shame, because as you can see from the links I posted, deployment can be quite involved. It is still incubating though. Maybe they need volunteers to step up and help with the documentation on the Apache s

It looks like OpenWhisk right now deploys onto JVM application servers you provision yourself, using runc+Docker and Akka clustering under the hood to orchestrate everything. I think they have plans to target Kubernetes as well. FaaS/"serverless" (a terrible name) is just a layer over an orchestration/deployment system (like Kube) that spins up instances in response to triggers / events and handles routing and scheduling of the instances in a way that's supposed to be transparent to the end-user. https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/blob/master/do...

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OpenWhisk can be started using Docker Compose locally with a single command (make quickstart) using this repo: https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-devtools/tree/... It can also be deployed on k8s with minimal effort: https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-deploy-kube There's also instructions for using VMs as the infrastructure layer: https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk#quick-start If you have any issues open an issue or join us on the slack (http://openwhisk.incubator.apache.org/slack.html). (I'm a committer on the project).

That looks like exactly what I'm talking about: https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/blob/master/do... The space is still early enough that there is a lot of value in competing options