Meet faasd. Look Ma’ No Kubernetes! - Alex Ellis, OpenFaaS Ltd

Meet faasd. Look Ma’ No Kubernetes! - Alex Ellis, OpenFaaS Ltd

As excellent as Kubernetes is, the traction of tools like k3s has shown us that scaling down is just as important as scaling up. Meet faasd - a FaaS framework that uses battle-tested CNCF projects (containerd & CNI) and the OpenFaaS ecosystem to provide an alternative to FaaS on Kubernetes With faasd, a function can cold-start in as little as 0.14s without resorting to stateful optimizations such as stateful containers that are injected with code. You can build, ship, and run containers built for both OpenFaaS and Knative. faasd was designed with portability in mind and runs on both Intel and ARM architecture The use-case being explored for faasd is for a bundled VM appliances and for edge devices. Imagine a computer with direct access to cryptographic hardware, fast flash storage for CDN, or a TPU for machine-learning inference. Through a live demo you’ll see an on-ramp into the CNCF ecosystem for teams who want to avoid lock-in, and aren’t quite ready for “full Kubernetes”

[kbrck]

Great video highlighting the various options out there. I know you liked your option better, but you did a good job trying to be unbiased about the others. Thanks. That is not easy task.

[Lip]

Awesome, always good to see options where you retain control over your data and infrastructure.

[vladoportos]

Im bit confused, I do agree that kubernetes is "bit too much" but the point of it is that it loadbalance and spawn replicas across nodes.... what is the adventage usind fasd on single node instead just running the code directly ?

[dshyryayev]

Is this true that if we build the whole app in faasd and take the same code and deploy to OpenFaas, will it work? I mean there will be will be no code change at all other then just configuring things in OpenFaas? Is this correct?

[minma]

How much diskspace I have to "sacrifice" to get a standard OpenFaas installed?

[TheLtbigbill]

Uses a 2015 Intel NUC compared to a 2016 Dell XPS... 🤔