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Next installment: "Running FFmpeg on a tower under my desk for 1% the cost of AWS Lambda". Is there any effort to on-prem lambda stuff yet? I know it's a mov

Next installment: "Running FFmpeg on a tower under my desk for 1% the cost of AWS Lambda". Is there any effort to on-prem lambda stuff yet? I know it's a moving target, but I wouldn't recommend getting into cloud stuff you can't migrate out of.

2RTZZSro 8y ago
Next installment: "Running a private cloud under my desk for 1% the cost of AWS".
- kwillets 8y ago
  I'm thinking of writing a book about tower-under-desk computing. It's surprisingly common.
  - pixl97 8y ago
    https://xkcd.com/908/ https://xkcd.com/908/
yaronhaviv 8y ago
check: https://github.com/nuclio/nuclio https://github.com/nuclio/nuclio high-perf serverless runs over (standalone) docker or Kubernetes or Cloud services
hangtwenty 8y ago
Yes! If one uses something like Kubeless[1], you have something like AWS Lambda, but where the backend is Kubernetes rather than AWS. Yes you're still on a framework, but it's a vendor-agnostic, open-source one. There are some other attempts at similar things, too. I am partial to this one for now. [1]: https://github.com/kubeless/kubeless https://github.com/kubeless/kubeless
- hardwaresofton 8y ago
  This is what I see as the true power of kubernetes -- once people start developing high quality (hopefully open source) applications for platforms like kubernetes, providers like AWS should lose their "value-added" benefits, and be reduced to more like colo providers, maybe offering 24/7 support as well. That will be when the ubiquitous cloud truly arrives -- run on whatever provider in the sky, and as long as they run kubernetes you can run your workloads there.
ty_a 8y ago
Well there's iron.io (which just got bought by Oracle) and there are several FaaS projects for Kubernetes such as: OpenFaaS and Kubeless. Edit: OpenFaaS can run on Nomad as well apparently: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/functions-as-a-service-with-nomad https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/functions-as-a-service-with-n...
polskibus 8y ago
https://openwhisk.apache.org/ https://openwhisk.apache.org/ backed by IBM AFAIK, but not only.
checker 8y ago
At a pure level, Lambda "integration" is essentially an interface for passing in runtime arguments+environment to your application. If you're concerned about lock-in, you can write or integrate another entry point that executes your function on on-prem Tomcat or whatever other environment (Cloud Functions?) you want to run in. The much harder challenge would be provisioning thousands of on-prem servers to handle the load, but I wouldn't necessarily qualify a dependency on cloud-like autoscaling as lock-in. I guess the lock-in might come as you unwittingly couple yourself to the intricacies of the rest of AWS's offerings as your app architecture grows more complex.

2RTZZSro 8y ago

Next installment: "Running a private cloud under my desk for 1% the cost of AWS".

kwillets 8y ago
I'm thinking of writing a book about tower-under-desk computing. It's surprisingly common.
- pixl97 8y ago
  https://xkcd.com/908/ https://xkcd.com/908/

yaronhaviv 8y ago

check: https://github.com/nuclio/nuclio https://github.com/nuclio/nuclio high-perf serverless runs over (standalone) docker or Kubernetes or Cloud services

hangtwenty 8y ago

Yes! If one uses something like Kubeless[1], you have something like AWS Lambda, but where the backend is Kubernetes rather than AWS. Yes you're still on a framework, but it's a vendor-agnostic, open-source one. There are some other attempts at similar things, too. I am partial to this one for now. [1]: https://github.com/kubeless/kubeless https://github.com/kubeless/kubeless

hardwaresofton 8y ago
This is what I see as the true power of kubernetes -- once people start developing high quality (hopefully open source) applications for platforms like kubernetes, providers like AWS should lose their "value-added" benefits, and be reduced to more like colo providers, maybe offering 24/7 support as well. That will be when the ubiquitous cloud truly arrives -- run on whatever provider in the sky, and as long as they run kubernetes you can run your workloads there.

ty_a 8y ago

Well there's iron.io (which just got bought by Oracle) and there are several FaaS projects for Kubernetes such as: OpenFaaS and Kubeless. Edit: OpenFaaS can run on Nomad as well apparently: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/functions-as-a-service-with-nomad https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/functions-as-a-service-with-n...

polskibus 8y ago

https://openwhisk.apache.org/ https://openwhisk.apache.org/ backed by IBM AFAIK, but not only.

checker 8y ago

At a pure level, Lambda "integration" is essentially an interface for passing in runtime arguments+environment to your application. If you're concerned about lock-in, you can write or integrate another entry point that executes your function on on-prem Tomcat or whatever other environment (Cloud Functions?) you want to run in. The much harder challenge would be provisioning thousands of on-prem servers to handle the load, but I wouldn't necessarily qualify a dependency on cloud-like autoscaling as lock-in. I guess the lock-in might come as you unwittingly couple yourself to the intricacies of the rest of AWS's offerings as your app architecture grows more complex.