alexellis/faas
Faas
This project is a Kubernetes serverless framework and OCI container function platform. It provides a system for deploying event-driven functions and microservices as compatible container images onto a Kubernetes cluster.
The platform includes an event-driven function orchestrator that triggers executions via HTTP requests or message streams. It features an auto-scaling function manager that adjusts the number of active instances based on real-time demand and scales down to zero during inactivity. A background queuing system is included to process asynchronous tasks and maintain application responsiveness.
Management capabilities are provided through a command-line interface and a visual dashboard for monitoring the lifecycle of functions. The project also includes utilities for generating language-specific code templates and boilerplates to accelerate development.
Features
- Serverless Function Runtimes - Provides an OCI-compliant platform for packaging and executing scalable, event-driven serverless functions.
- Kubernetes-Native Deployments - Implements a serverless deployment framework specifically designed for event-driven functions on Kubernetes clusters.
- Event-Driven Automation Engines - Provides a runtime environment that triggers specific backend tasks via HTTP requests or message streams.
- Auto Scaling - Automatically adjusts the number of active function instances based on real-time traffic metrics.
- Automatic Compute Scaling - A capability that adjusts the number of running instances based on demand and automatically scales down to zero when inactive.
- Compute Instance Scaling - Automatically adjusts the number of active function instances based on real-time demand to optimize resource usage.
- CLI Function Deployments - Provides a command-line interface for defining, building, and deploying stateless functions as container images.
- Event-Driven Orchestration - Orchestrates the mapping of cloud event sources and HTTP requests to specific function execution units.
- Event-Driven Triggers - Provides mechanisms for initiating automated serverless functions in response to external HTTP signals or message events.
- Kubernetes Cluster Orchestration - Manages function lifecycles and resource allocation by leveraging native Kubernetes container orchestration.
- Scale-to-Zero Pods - Launches function runtime pods on demand and scales them to zero when idle to optimize resources.
- Custom Resource Serverless Frameworks - Provides a complete serverless platform on Kubernetes that manages functions as custom resources with auto-scaling.
- Stateless Function Deployments - Builds and deploys stateless function code as containerized services without requiring manual infrastructure boilerplate.
- Asynchronous Task Processing - Ships a background queuing mechanism to process asynchronous tasks and prevent request timeouts.
- Container Image Packaging - Packages functions and binaries into standardized OCI-compliant container images for consistent Kubernetes deployment.
- Microservices Management - Orchestrates and scales independent microservices through a dedicated CLI and visual management dashboard.
- Microservices Orchestration - Manages the lifecycle and routing of small, independent containerized services that respond to events.
- Management Dashboards - Offers a visual dashboard for monitoring and managing the deployment and lifecycle of serverless functions.
- Asynchronous Task Processors - Provides a background queuing system to handle long-running tasks without blocking the main application.
- Asynchronous Task Queues - Implements a background queuing system to offload long-running tasks and maintain application responsiveness.
- Serverless Frameworks and Utilities - Executes Docker containers as functions on Swarm.
