OpenFaaS
Infrastructure
serverless functions platform
SHOW HN2017
36points
18comments
#962of 2,242 in 2017
Top 43%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score -0.09.
Design: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Easier CLI experience than Serverless Framework
From 1 comment
We have a CLI [1] for OpenFaaS which gives a better experience than the Serverless Inc. Framework format along with more native integrations. Example stack.yml file [3]. The…
alexellisuk on HN
PHP functions easy to write
From 1 comment
PHP is pretty easy to write with OpenFaaS. Here's an example of how the CLI works - https://blog.alexellis.io/quickstart-openfaas-cli/ I can intro you to the guy who wrote the…
alexellisuk on HN
Objections
Relies on Docker, causing maintenance burden
From 2 comments
It relies on docker. So if you don't want a maintenance nightmare you're SOL. Something that works via libvirt to allow multiple backends would honestly be a much nicer option.
stephenr on HNNot containers, docker. Libvirt would allow someone to run this with practically any "virtualisation-like" system.
stephenr on HN
Title's 'your terms' is overstated
From 1 comment
For certain values of "your terms"
stephenr on HN
Requests
Support for libvirt backends
From 2 comments
It relies on docker. So if you don't want a maintenance nightmare you're SOL. Something that works via libvirt to allow multiple backends would honestly be a much nicer option.
stephenr on HNNot containers, docker. Libvirt would allow someone to run this with practically any "virtualisation-like" system.
stephenr on HN
Serverless Framework plugin timeline
From 1 comment
We're working mostly with the Serverless framework. Cool to see you're working on a plugin for that. Will give it a spin once that's ready. Any timeline for that?
tfjaeckel on HN
Questions
What does serverless mean
From 1 comment
Sorry for my ignorance - what does 'serverless' exactly mean?
diminish on HN
How to run PHP functions on AWS Lambda
From 2 comments
I've been trying to run PHP functions on Aws lambda for sometime. The solutions provided so far[1] are really complicated and serverless framework doesn't have amy inbuilt…
superasn on HNThanks for the reply. It helped me to get a basic understanding of Openfaas. The only thing the article didn't mention is how to move the docker image to aws lambda and invoke it…
superasn on HN
Alternatives named
AWS Lambda
From 1 comment
I've been trying to run PHP functions on Aws lambda for sometime. The solutions provided so far[1] are really complicated and serverless framework doesn't have amy inbuilt…
superasn on HN
Serverless Framework
From 1 comment
We're working mostly with the Serverless framework. Cool to see you're working on a plugin for that. Will give it a spin once that's ready. Any timeline for that?
tfjaeckel on HN
Hyper.sh
From 1 comment
If you want to use a completely unmanaged solution checkout the Hyper.sh integration - https://github.com/hyperhq/faas-hyper We're also looking at ACI integration and I believe…
alexellisuk on HN