OpenFaaS - Run Containerized Functions On Your Own Terms
For a long time, serverless has been just a synonym of AWS Lambda for me. Lambda offered a convenient way to attach an arbitrary piece of code to a platform event like a cloud instance changing its state, a DynamoDB record update, or a new SNS message. But also, from time to time, I would come up with a piece of logic that is not big enough to deserve its own service and at the same time doesn't fit well with the scope of any of the existing services. So, I'd often also put it into a function to invoke it later with a CLI command or an HTTP call.
I moved away from AWS a couple of years ago, and since then, I've been missing this ease of deploying serverless functions. So I was pleasantly surprised when I learned about the OpenFaaS project. It makes it simple to deploy functions to a Kubernetes cluster, or even to a VM, with nothing but containerd.
Intrigued? Then read on!
