Excerpts from Lingxian Kong's message of 2016-11-02 15:20:45 +1300: > Hi, all, > > Recently when I was talking with some customers of our OpenStack based > public cloud, some of them are expecting to see a service similar to AWS > Lambda in OpenStack ecosystem (so such service could be invoked by Heat, > Mistral, Swift, etc.). > > Coincidently, I happened to see an introduction of OpenWhisk project by IBM > guys in Barcelona Summit. The demo was great and I was much more exsited to > know it was opensourced, but after checking, I feels a little bit > frustrated, most of the core part of the code was written in Scala so it > sets a high bar for me (yeah, I'm using Python) to learn and understand. > > So I came here to ask if there are people who are interested in serverless > area as me or have the same requirements as our customers? Does it deserve > a new project complies with OpenStack rules and conventions? Is there any > chance that people could join together for the implementation? >
I don't have answers to these questions, but I'd ask: * Does OpenWhisk have a significant user base? * Do the goals of OpenWhisk run parallel to the goals of OpenStack? * Can any OpenStack operator deploy OpenWhisk and immediately begin providing serverless to their users? The more "yes" answers, the more reason there is to simply promote OpenWhisk as a great choice for our users. However, if they're all "no", then it would be good to start a new serverless project. You can probably do it under the OpenStack umbrella, though IMO, this is one of those things that can just be standalone + keystone auth.. there's no need for it to be "inside" the cloud. Personally, I hope all three answers are "yes", and you can find it in your heart to forgive the use of Scala, for the users' sake. __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
