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Insiders Update 6th Oct 2019 - FaaS for Rubyists, Managed k3s, GitHub Actions, and PLONK Stack intro
This week's Insiders Update is a bumper edition with two weeks' worth of content, so make a hot drink and get settled in.
There have been lots of updates to the OpenFaaS README on GitHub, so go and read up and star the project if you haven't.
I spoke at The Cloud Native London Conference about the PLONK Stack, which combines:
- Prometheus
- Linkerd (optional)
- OpenFaaS
- NATS
- Kubernetes
Find out why PLONK can be easier than working directly with Kubernetes.
Video: Getting Started with the PLONK Stack and Serverless 2.0
Civo, a Gold homepage sponsor of OpenFaaS.com launched the first managed k3s service we've seen to date.
Learn how I helped them build and shape their offering and what my first impressions were as a I walked through the platform.
Blog post: The World's First Managed k3s
Sign up for early access: Join #kube100
The inlets-operator is a new Open Source project that I released on Friday. It integrates inlets directly into the Kubernetes API through the use of a CRD and Kubernetes controller.
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What does it do?
It automates the provisioning of your inlets exit-node server and client (running as a Pod) and then updates any LoadBalancers found with a public IP.
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What does it mean?
It means that if you expose a Service as type LoadBalancer in Kubernetes, you'll now get a public IP address. You can then share your APIs and websites with others, just like you would with a cloud LoadBalancer. A public IP is also great for receiving webhooks or for communicating with third-party services.
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What are people saying?
Darren Shepherd, creator of k3s: "This really slick, it auto-deploys a tunnel in the cloud to your laptop or wherever you are running k8s."
Ángel Barrera, co-founder K8spin: "This is a game changer operator. Deploy a low cost load balancer to your kubernetes cluster"
Utsav Anand, student and OSS contributor: "I'm impressed!! Literally took less than 5 mins (including creating a minikube k8s cluster) to get the inlets-operator running for my cluster to give a service of type LoadBalancer! Those forever
<pending>placeholders are gone!"
The inlets-operator will also work for your Raspberry Pi cluster whether you're running Kubernetes or k3s.
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Star/fork the project: inlets-operator
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Read a tutorial: Get a LoadBalancer for your private Kubernetes cluster
The interest in FaaS and Serverless is still building moment within the Ruby community. A popular service called faastRuby announced that it was shutting down permanently.
Paulo, the author recommends that developers move to OpenFaaS and he's collated a number of resources to help his 800+ users move across, if they wish to do so.
I also wanted to do my bit, so I wrote a new tutorial for Ruby programmers.
Tutorial: FaaS for the Rubyist
A team of researchers wanted to apply Serverless to SmartNICs, and they decided to use OpenFaaS to build that.
"We built λ-NIC as an extension to our baseline framework, inheriting all of OpenFaaS’s core features with additional support for running lambdas on P4-enabled Netronome SmartNICs."
Read the paper lead by Sean Choi of Stanford: Lambda-NIC: Interactive Serverless Compute on Programmable SmartNICs
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Tutorial: Getting Started with OpenFaaS and the OpenFaaS Community Cluster by Josh Michielsen
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Blog-post: Simple Serverless with Golang Functions and Microservices
- Blog post: Action Packed Functions with GitHub Actions by Lucas Roesler
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Here I am with Josh and Carla in London for The Cloud Native London Conference
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