[Jenkins-infra] Exploring alternatives to Azure Functions for serverless needs

[Olblak]

Fission sounds interesting but it also seems to be a new service which need to be maintained.
The good thing, is that they provide a helm package so it shouldn't be to hard to deploy but we never deployed any helm applications with the current tooling.
 


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On Sun, Aug 19, 2018, at 6:21 PM, R. Tyler Croy wrote:
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> On Sat, 18 Aug 2018, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
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> > The Buildbot project does has their main CI server at
> > https://nine.buildbot.net, and
> > for each of their CI jobs, they spin up containers on Hyper (
> > https://hyper.sh ), and then
> > bring down the containers once they are done.
> > They have used it for a few years, and the service is solid, and cheap:
> > https://hyper.sh/hyper/pricing.html
> > 
> > In addition to spinning up plain containers, Hyper has introduced a new
> > Kubernetes service as well,
> > but I haven't tried it.
> 
> 
> I think there's some ambiguity in what "serverless" means to different people
> here :)
> 
> I'm referring to serverless a la AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure
> Functions. Whose typical workloads are small bits of glue JavaScript (or other
> languages) which respond to webhooks, and send back http data.
> 
> For things like running Docker instances, we already have Kubernetes deployed
> and if that wasn't enough, we also have Azure Container Instances (which are
> pretty good) at our disposal.
> 
> 
> The main use-case our functions
> (https://github.com/jenkins-infra/community-functions) have is to bridge little
> bits of http-based workflow together, which Azure Functions or Fission are
> ideally suited for (assuming they work of course).
> 
> :)
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