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Fission: Serverless Functions for Kubernetes

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Fission is a fast serverless framework for Kubernetes with a focus on developer productivity and high performance.

Fission operates on just the code: Docker and Kubernetes are abstracted away under normal operation, though you can use both to extend Fission if you want to.

Fission is extensible to any language; the core is written in Go, and language-specific parts are isolated in something called environments (more below). Fission currently supports NodeJS, Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, Bash, and any Linux executable, with more languages coming soon.

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
  • Performance: 100msec cold start
  • Kubernetes is the right place for Serverless
  • Getting Started
  • Learn More
  • Contributing
  • Who is using Fission?
  • Sponsors
• License

Performance: 100msec cold start

Fission maintains a pool of "warm" containers that each contain a small dynamic loader. When a function is first called, i.e. "cold-started", a running container is chosen and the function is loaded. This pool is what makes Fission fast: cold-start latencies are typically about 100msec.

Kubernetes is the right place for Serverless

We're built on Kubernetes because we think any non-trivial app will use a combination of serverless functions and more conventional microservices, and Kubernetes is a great framework to bring these together seamlessly.

Building on Kubernetes also means that anything you do for operations on your Kubernetes cluster — such as monitoring or log aggregation — also helps with ops on your Fission deployment.

Getting Started

  # Add the stock NodeJS env to your Fission deployment
  $ fission env create --name nodejs --image fission/node-env

  # Create a function with a javascript one-liner that prints "hello world"
  $ fission function create --name hello --env nodejs --code https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fission/examples/master/nodejs/hello.js

  # Run the function.  This takes about 100msec the first time.
  $ fission function test --name hello
  Hello, world!

Learn More

• Understand Fission Concepts.
• See the installation guide for installing and running Fission.
• You can learn more about Fission and get started from Fission Docs.
• To see Fission in action, check out the Fission Examples Repo.
• See the troubleshooting guide for debugging your functions and Fission installation.

Contributing

Check out the contributing guide.

Who is using Fission?

• Fareye
• Apple
• iQuanti
• A large telecom CSP
• Gadget
• CinnamonAI
• Armo
• The Social Audience
• KubeML
• Unilever
• BD
• Biofourmis
• Babylon

Sponsors

The following companies, organizations, and individuals support Fission's ongoing maintenance and development. If you are using/contributing to Fission, we would be happy to list you here, please raise a Pull request.

License

Fission is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details

blog.fission.io's Issues

0.8.0 Blog

A blog with details of updates in 0.8.0 release

blog with kubecon talk video

No long summary -- just talk abstract + video embed.

Separate post with the actual talk's content.

Blog look and feel

The current blog needs two look & feel fixes:

1. Every blog should have an image
2. Fonts of the blog can be better for readability.

blog issues

if possible, would be great if, at a minimum, you could implement the below before next week's launch:

on the header of blog.fission.io:
    on the top left, change the text of "Fission: Functions as a Service on Kubernetes" to read "Fission: Open Source, Kubernetes-native Serverless Framework"
    the above text should not be linked to blog.fission.io but to https://fission.io

Add the fission logo to the top left corner of the header, linking to https://fission.io
Add link before the Twitter and GitHub icons that reads "Install Fission" linking to https://docs.fission.io/latest/installation/installation (providing users that land on an individual content item and are sold on fission, with an immediate, easy, constant link to download and start using it.
Change the link that reads "Posts" to be labeled "Fission Blog"
on an individual blog post URL (example https://blog.fission.io/posts/how-to-develop-a-serverless-application-with-fission-pt-3/), change the title that just reads "POSTS" to read "The Fission Blog" (otherwise, for users landing directly on an individual content item, there's no orientation that this is the fission blog.
on the blog lobby page, link the word Fission in the intro paragraph of "Fission is an open source FaaS framework for Kubernetes with an emphasis on developer experience and performance." to https://fission.io/ (again, since the main blog page doesn't have an obvious link to the project homepage.

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