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OpenFaaS Community
Welcome to the OpenFaaS community page where you can find:
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Blog posts and write-ups
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Events
There are several key GitHub repositories for the project which are available under the openfaas organisation. Incubator and experimental projects are under the openfaas-incubator organisation.
How to submit a link to this page
It would be great to hear from you especially if you have any of the above and want to share it with the rest of the community. Pull Request or submit a Github Issue.
Note: You will need to sign-off the commit too using
git commit -sor addSigned-off-by: {your full name} <{your email address}>to the commit message when using the UI.
Industry awards, notable mentions and books
Interviews and podcasts
| Title | Show | Date |
|---|---|---|
| The Cube Interview - Monetising Open Source at KubeCon Valencia | the Cube | 19-May-2022 |
| "Balancing OSS Sacrifice with Success" | GitHub ReadME program | 04-Sep-2020 | | Episode #116 Independent Open Source, with Alex Ellis | Kubernetes Podcast by Google | 12-Aug-2020 | | The explosive growth of CNCF, what is Kubernetes and independent open source | Observy McObservface | 29-07-2020 | | How OpenFaaS Found its groove with arm | WorksOnArm | 20-04-2020 | | POPCAST Episode 5 - Going independent and Cloud Native Open Source | Popcast | 09-04-2020 | | Serverless, FaaS, and Kubernetes Tools with Alex Ellis of OpenFaaS DevOps and Docker Talk | Bret Fisher Docker and DevOps Talk| 24-Apr-2020 | | Serverless Functions with Alex Ellis of OpenFaaS: DevOps and Docker Live Show (Ep 68) | Bret Fisher Docker and DevOps | 16-Jan-2020 | | Serverless and OpenFaas with Alex Ellis | The Hanselminutes Podcast | 29-Dec-2019 | | OpenFaaS Creator on Open Source’s Community-Funding Model | The New Stack | 11-Jul-2019 | | Running functions anywhere with OpenFaaS - featuring Alex Ellis | The Changelog | 25-Apr-2019 | | Episode 022 – OpenFaaS with Docker Captain | The 6 Figure Developer Podcast | 15-Jan-2018 | | Serverless and OpenFaas with Alex Ellis | Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman | 29-Dec-2017 |
Featured Videos
2022
Blog posts and write-ups 2022
| Blog/repo name and description | Author | Site | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| WebAssembly functions in OpenFaaS using Sat (Part1) | Connor Hicks | wasm.builders | 04-May-2022 |
| Building a RESTful API with functions | Simon Emms | simonemms.com | 24-April-2022 |
| How to process your data the resilient way with back pressure | Alex Ellis | openfaas.com | 12-May-2022 |
| A Deep Dive into Golang for OpenFaaS Functions | Alex Ellis | openfaas.com | 13-April-2022 |
| My Journey Contributing To OpenFaaS So Far | Nitishkumar Singh | openfaas.com | 02-Mar-2022 |
| Your pocket-sized cloud with a Raspberry Pi | Alex Ellis | openfaas.com | 23-Mar-2022 |
| Hosting a React App with OpenFaaS | Alex Ellis | openfaas.com | 01-Mar-2022 |
| Dude where's my coldstart? | Alex Ellis | openfaas.com | 19-Jan-2022 |
| OpenFaaS Highlights from 2021 | Alex Ellis | openfaas.com | 04-Jan-2022 |
| OpenFaaS and HashiCorp Vault | Johan Siebens | johansiebens.dev | 21-Jan-2022 |
Events in 2022
Mainly virtual due to pandemic.
| Event name and description | Speaker | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| How and Why We Rebuilt Auto-scaling in OpenFaaS with Prometheus - Alex Ellis, KubeCon Valencia | Alex Ellis | Valencia, Spain | 19-May-2022 |
| Your pocket-sized cloud with OpenFaaS and GitHub Actions | Alex Ellis & Martin Woodword | YouTube | 25-Mar-2022 |
2021
Blog posts and write-ups 2021
Events in 2021
Mainly virtual due to pandemic.
| Event name and description | Speaker | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| GopherCon UK 2021: Alex Ellis - Zero to OpenFaas in 60 months | Alex Ellis | London, UK | 22 Nov 2021 |
| Event driven Postgres with OpenFaaS | Alex Ellis and Lucas Roesler | YouTube | 02-Feb-2021 |
| Exploring Serverless use-cases with David McKay (Rawkode) and Alex Ellis | YouTube | David McKay (Rawkode) and Alex Ellis | 27-Jan-2021 |
2020
Events in 2020
Postponed events for 2020
| Event name and description | Speaker | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service Mesh and Serverless Chatbots with Linkerd K8s and OpenFaaS | Sergio Méndez | Kubecon EU | 02-Apr-2020 |
| Strangling Our Venue Management Monolith at DX with Kubernetes and OpenFaaS | Alex Ellis & Christian Sakshaug | Kubecon EU | 02-Apr-2020 |
| Sending Billions of Payments Using Hybrid Cloud and Open-source Technologies | Edward Wilde & Bruno Miguel Custódio | Kubecon EU | 02-Apr-2020 |
| Finding Managed Services in a Serverless World with Crossplane and OpenFaaS | Daniel Mangum | Serverless Practitioners Summit - KubeCon EU | 30-Mar-2020 |
| Meet faasd. Look ma’ no Kubernetes! | Alex Ellis | Serverless Practitioners Summit @ KubeCon Amsterdam | 30-Mar-2020 |
| The State of Open Source Serverless | Jonatas Baldin | Cloud Native Rejekts EU '20 | 28-Mar-2020 |
| The Need for a Cloud Native Tunnel | Alex Ellis | Cloud Native Rejekts, Amsterdam | 23-Mar-2020 |
| WebAssembly + OpenFaaS, the Universal Runtime for Serverless Functions | Ramiro Berrelleza | Kubecon EU | 30-March-2020 |
Blog posts and write-ups 2020
2019
Events in 2019
Blog posts and write-ups 2019
2018
Events in 2018
Blog posts and write-ups 2018
2017
Events in 2017
Blog posts and write-ups 2017
Repositories
Projects, Samples, and Use Cases
You can also find cool projects or submit your own to the faas-and-furious organisation. Contact Alex for details on how.
| Project name and description | Author | Site | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| vCenter Event Broker Appliance | Gasch/Lam | VMware Flings | 11-November-2019 |
| OpenFaaS PowerShell Polaris template | Craig Gumbley | github.com | 23-September-2019 |
| BikeshareFunction for GBFS Bikeshare Systems | Andreas Mosti | github.com | 25-May-2019 |
| OpenFaaS Go 1.11 templates | Matias Pan | github.com | 15-May-2019 |
| OpenFaaS GoCV template | Matias Pan | github.com | 16-Mar-2019 |
| OpenFaas CSharp MongoDB Template | Marcus Smallman | github.com | 28-Nov-2018 |
| OpenFaas Java 8 + Vert.x Template | Philippe Charrière | gitlab.com | 11-Nov-2018 |
| Faasflow - faas workflow as a function | Swarvanu Sengupta | github.com | 11-Nov-2018 |
| OpenFaaS Crystal Template | Thomas Peikert | github.com | 26-Oct-2018 |
| OpenFaaS Terraform Provider | Edward Wilde | github.com | 12-Oct-2018 |
| OpenFaaS Swift Template | Keiran Smith | github.com | 22-May-2018 |
| OpenFaaS Code Eval | Michael Herman | github.com | 30-Mar-2018 |
| OpenFaaS RESTful API w/ Node and Postgres | Michael Herman | github.com | 26-Jan-2018 |
| OpenFaaS with Ruby/MySQL/Ceph Sample | Magnus Persson | lallassu/openfaas-demo | 23-Jan-2018 |
| sqlrest: API Proxy to connect to a SQL database from a function | Burton Rheutan | github.com | 21-Nov-2017 |
| Kafka-connector for OpenFaaS | King Chung Huang | ucalgary/ftrigger | 13-Oct-2017 |
| Azure Storage and Azure Service Bus Queues Trigger for OpenFaaS on Kubernetes | Daniele Antonio Maggio | github.com/danigian/Azure-Queues-Trigger-OpenFaaS | 24-Sep-2017 |
| faas-pipeline - OpenFaaS function composition | Ivan Erceg | github.com | 23-Sep-2017 |
| Github - Reverse geocoding | Luc Juggery | github.com | 14-Sep-2017 |
| QR Code | John McCabe | github.com | 18-Aug-2017 |
| Img2ANSI - GIF/PNG/JPG to ANSI art converter | John McCabe | github.com | 10-Aug-2017 |
| FaaS-netes - Kubernetes backend for FaaS | Alex Ellis | github.com | 25-Jul-2017 |
| Twitter, Elastic Search and Alexa stack of functions | Alex Ellis | github.com | 24-Apr-2017 |
| Github - URL Shortener | Finnian Anderson | developius/faas-node-url-shortener | 19-Apr-2017 |
| Github - fibonacci numbers up to N | Finnian Anderson | developius/faas-python-fib/ | 19-Apr-2017 |
| Github - ascii art generator | Finnian Anderson | developius/faas-node-ascii | 17-Apr-2017 |
| Dockercon FaaS demos including Alexa/Github | Alex Ellis | github.com | 14-Apr-2017 |
| Docker Birthday voting app ported to FaaS | Alex Ellis | github.com | 14-Apr-2017 |
| Github-Airtable Bug Tracker integration | Austin Frey | github.com/aafrey/faas-demo | 10-Apr-2017 |
OpenFaaS providers
Official providers developed and supported by the OpenFaaS project
| Project name and description | Author | Site | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| faas-netes- Kubernetes provider | OpenFaaS | github.com | Supported |
| faasd- containerd single-host provider | OpenFaaS | github.com | Supported |
Community providers actively being developed and/or supported by a third-party
| Project name and description | Author | Site | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| faas-nomad - Nomad provider | Andrew Cornies & Nic Jackson (Hashicorp) | github.com | Incubation |
| faas-memory - In-memory provider | Ed Wilde / Alex Ellis | github.com | Inception |
| faas-federation - federation provider to route between one or more providers | Ed Wilde / Alex Ellis | github.com | Inception |
| faas-fargate - AWS Fargate provider | Edward Wilde | github.com | Incubation |
| faas-lambda - AWS Lambda provider | Ed Wilde / Alex Ellis | sales@openfaas.com | Incubation |
Community providers no-longer being maintained
| Project name and description | Author | Site | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| faas-swarm - Docker Swarm provider | OpenFaaS | github.com | Deprecated |
| faas-rancher - Rancher/Cattle provider | Ken Fukuyama | github.com | Inception |
| faas-dcos - DCOS provider | Alberto Quario | github.com | Inception |
| faas-hyper - Hyper.sh provider | Hyper | github.com | Inception |
| faas-guardian - Guardian provider | Nigel Wright | github.com | Inception |
| faas-ecs | Xicheng Chang (Huawei) | github.com | Inception |
| faas-opendns | OpenDNS / Cisco / EC2 | medium.com | Inception |
Key:
(Status)
- Incubation - actively being developed, but not stable
- Inception - more work needed. May work in happy path scenario, but unlikely to be suitable for production