Kubernetes and AWS Lambda: OpenFaas Demo

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the first microservices meetup of the year! This time we are hosting Edward Wilde who is a core contributor to the OpenFaaS project and platform architect at @F3FinCloud.

Thanks to our sponsors MRJ Recruitment and Codurance for making this night possible.

The event will start at 7pm and we’ll be at Federation House once again. This time we've got some healthy snacks, wine and beer and non-alcoholic beverages to enjoy before the talk.

Hope to see you there on 3rd of April, 7pm. Make sure you RSVP now, as places will go fast for this one!

Talk Description

Worried about vendor lock-in with serverless computing, but enjoy the scale, price and simplicity of AWS Lambda?

OpenFaaS is an open-source function as a service (FaaS) platform on the CNCF serverless landscape.

With OpenFaaS you can package anything as a serverless function and deploy to Kubernetes using containers. Due to UNIX-like primitives in the core architecture, it was possible to extend the system to run functions on both Kubernetes and AWS Lambda depending on user preference. The core components of OpenFaaS still run on Kubernetes but the functions are deployed and invoked on AWS Lambda

In this talk we explain how the provider model in OpenFaaS separates the control plane from the function execution plane. The live demonstration deploys a function to Kubernetes using kubectl, then invokes the deployed function via Kubernetes on AWS Lambda