On The Blog

News, tutorials and case-studies from the OpenFaaS team.

  • 5 ways to share your OpenFaaS story

    Community End-user Kubecon Kubernetes

    OpenFaaS is developed by a small team of volunteers, we would love to know how you’re using the project and what problems you are solving.

    Alex Ellis

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  • The OpenFaaS 2019 Project Update

    Update Project Community Kubernetes

    The founder Alex Ellis shares the OpenFaaS 2019 Project Update, case-studies, his personal highlights, and the roadmap for the year ahead.

    Alex Ellis

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  • Introducing OpenFaaS for AWS Lambda (faas-lambda)

    Lambda Aws Cloud Tutorial Kubernetes

    Learn how AWS Lambda and OpenFaaS can play well together with the new provider called faas-lambda. You’ll learn how to deploy functions to Kubernetes and AWS with the same developer experience and workflow which is known and loved by the OpenFaaS community.

    Edward Wilde

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  • Introducing Serverless with Hashicorp Nomad, Consul, and Vault

    Nomad Vault Hashicorp Providers

    Learn how to deploy Serverless Functions on Hashicorp Nomad with faas-nomad, a provider maintained by Andrew Cornies.

    Andrew Cornies

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  • Meet us at KubeCon 2019, Barcelona

    Community Events End-user Kubecon Kubernetes

    I’ll outline a few places where you can find us if you’d like to catch a session, grab a coffee, swag or just chat about Kubernetes and Serverless.

    Alex Ellis

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  • Get to grips with Serverless Kubernetes this Spring

    Community Workshop Events Kubernetes

    In this post I want to run through my top five tips for getting to grips with Serverless on Kubernetes. If you’re taking some time off over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, then grab a cup of tea or coffee and your laptop to begin learning.

    Alex Ellis

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  • Staying on topic: trigger your OpenFaaS functions with Apache Kafka

    Kafka Tutorial Examples

    In this post I will show you how you can build subscriptions between your OpenFaaS functions and your Apache Kafka topics. I’ll be using Kubernetes to show you around, but the connector-sdk works with any OpenFaaS provider.

    Martin Dekov

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  • Simple Serverless with Golang Functions and Microservices

    Templates Golang Go

    In my previous post I demonstrated how the OpenFaaS CLI and build-templates can enable functions on any container orchestrator such as Kubernetes or Google Cloud Run. In today’s post I will focus on how to deploy your Golang code to OpenFaaS either as a function or as a stateless microservice.

    Alex Ellis

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  • Run your OpenFaaS Functions on Google Cloud Run for free

    Cloud Kubernetes Cicd Gitops

    In this post I’ll introduce Google’s new Cloud Run product which like OpenFaaS allows any HTTP Server packaged in a Docker or OCI image format to be deployed and scaled.

    Alex Ellis

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  • Introducing OpenFaaS Cloud with GitLab

    Cloud Cicd Gitops

    In this post, I’ll walk you through how to provision your own OpenFaaS Cloud connected to a self-hosted GitLab instance, so that you can run your Serverless functions and stateless microservices on any private or public cloud.

    Alex Ellis

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