Ask HN: Open Source Self-Hosted FaaS Software

8 points by w8rbt 7y ago ↗ HN

Can anyone recommend a well-regarded open source FaaS solution that I can host myself on Linux? I've ran into some limitations with AWS Lambda (primarily IPv6 support) [1][2] so I'm looking for alternatives and I want to break away from AWS a bit as well, so this would be a good experiment. The ability to schedule the functions to execute periodically (minute, hourly, daily, etc.) and to run tens of thousands (or more) would be required. I primarily use Go and some Python 3 functions in Lambda.

Thanks for any feedback.

[1] - https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=771807

[2] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41694477/how-to-call-a-ipv6-rest-service-over-aws-lambda

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ljquintanilla 7y ago ↗

https://www.openfaas.com/

emilburzo 7y ago ↗

I haven't used it, but https://openwhisk.apache.org seemed the most promising when I was looking for a self-hosted lambda equivalent.

Not due to any limitations of lambda, but just for personal projects where I already have a server at home anyway and it doesn't make sense to pay extra.

(In the end I just went with Docker and Jenkins because I didn't have anything complex enough to justify something heavier)