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OpenFaaS
Company blog · openfaas.com/blogprogrammingsystems
OpenFaaS is the company blog at openfaas.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2017, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 243 times, most often “OpenFaaS: Serverless Functions, Made Simple”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (21) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters point to openfaas.com as an open-source, self-hostable FaaS platform, usually as an alternative to AWS Lambda or as something to run on Kubernetes. Mostly bare suggestions rather than comments on the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 21 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Serverless Functions Made Simple with Kubernetes.
Most-linked posts?
- OpenFaaS: Serverless Functions, Made Simple18 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2017-11-03
- OpenFaaS – cloud native serverless framework4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2017-08-24
- A Deep Dive into Golang for OpenFaaS Functions3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-04-13
- Show HN: Portable Serverless without the complexity of Kubernetes2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-04-18
- The PLONK Stack for Cloud Native Developers2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-08-05
- Learn how to share and promote your work as an engineer2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-02-12
- Build and deploy OpenFaaS functions with GitHub Actions2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-10-13
- Process Google Forms Responses with OpenFaaS2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-05
- OpenFaaS Highlights from 20212 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-04
- The Next Generation of Queuing: JetStream for OpenFaaS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-21
What Hacker News says?
It depends. Many are paid as career OSS developers to contribute to Kubernetes. The ingress-nginx maintainer just stepped down today because nobody would fund his work. https://twitter.com/aledbf/status/1347273455448842240?s=20 openfaas is also unfunded and a large project with many commercial end-(ab)users. https://www.openfaas.com Matt Holt behind Caddy gave up after years of struggle and managed to sell out to a…
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on “No meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees”Submitted Show HN: Web scraping that just works with OpenFaaS with Puppeteer as a story · 145 points
HN discussionThis is why I can see why Kubeless [1], Fission [2] and OpenFAAS [3] are gaining traction. But my take is always that it depends on the size of your company, your cloud strategy and how much serverless you are using. * If you are small company dabbling in small serverless scripts, just use Lambda. * If you are a medium+ company but have gone all in on AWS or GCP, and serverless is still a limited small part of your…
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on ““Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)”Submitted Bringing Serverless to a Web Page Near You with Hugo and Kubernetes as a story · 67 points
HN discussionYou could always deploy your own FAAS cluster. https://www.openfaas.com/ https://openwhisk.apache.org/ and others.
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on ““Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)”Submitted Ride the Serverless Wave with DigitalOcean's One-Click Droplet as a story · 56 points
HN discussionMaybe https://www.openfaas.com/
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on “Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?”Submitted Dude where's my coldstart? as a story · 45 points
HN discussionI wrote a blog post showing off the service here and just did a live demo capturing GitHub data into Postgres. Check it out for some screenshots and to find out more https://www.openfaas.com/blog/serverless-single-page-app/
Comment linking /blog/serverless-single-page-app/
on “Fully managed PostgreSQL databases”Submitted Improving long-running jobs for OpenFaaS users as a story · 34 points
HN discussionHow are you finding managing infra for rails? Is disaster recovery quick for you? I'm the author of openfaas and hear what you say about the fragmentation for using AWS Lambda. We recently made a rails-esq version of OpenFaaS for users who have a single small app like yourself. I would be interested in your impressions. It's all open source and is a bit more of a more modern stack. On the upside it uses containers a…
Comment linking /blog/faasd-tls-terraform/
on “Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails”Submitted Migrate Your AWS Lambda Functions to Kubernetes with OpenFaaS as a story · 28 points
HN discussionAlex, OpenFaaS founder here. The author has done a huge amount of work here, I am surprised that it's being given away for free, and not being monetized (it should be). I often hear folks complain that Kubernetes is complex, and hard to understand. We've done a lot of work to make the experience of deploying functions simple on K8s, with very little to manage. But it still costs you a K8s cluster - most of our users…
Comment linking /blog/faasd-tls-terraform/
on “AWS Lambda Terraform Cookbook with working examples”Submitted Show HN: Introducing the Template Store for OpenFaaS as a story · 24 points
HN discussionI've gone the opposite way to this. I will usually answer as soon as I can, possibly immediately with some kind of response. The last thing I want is to have people announce my work is "dead" or "unmaintained" Perhaps I've gone too far with it. Ignoring sounds like a powerful tool. I'm also starting to offer alternatives to get "paid attention" and support https://www.openfaas.com/support/
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on “Open Source does not mean “Includes Free Support””Submitted Show HN: Portable Serverless without the complexity of Kubernetes as a story · 19 points
HN discussionOpenFaas? https://www.openfaas.com/
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on “Now dev – Serverless on localhost”Submitted Stateless Microservices in OpenFaaS as a story · 14 points
HN discussionAlso : https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/emulator (JavaScript only) and https://www.openfaas.com/ (if you can tolerate running Minikube on your "localhost".
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on “Now dev – Serverless on localhost”Submitted Build a serverless Discord bot with OpenFaaS and Golang as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI'd also recommend How I built Good First Issue bot with OpenFaaS Cloud by Rajat Jindal of Proofpoint. It's already used on repos from Docker, Microsoft, OpenFaaS, JetStack (cert-manager), and Google. It's a free SaaS, just add the label and it'll tweet out for you. Bonus once you've added the label - it should be picked-up by GitHub's tool too. https://www.openfaas.com/blog/good-first-issue/
Comment linking /blog/good-first-issue/
on “Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source”Submitted Build Your Own OpenFaaS Cloud with AWS EKS as a story · 8 points
HN discussionServerless has been on the roadmap for a little while: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/155 - I saw a demo of using OpenFaaS ( https://www.openfaas.com ) as a serverless endpoint for GitLab around 3 months ago. I think that the effort here is to control software, the deployment to Kubernetes is just an additional thing that is tied to the overall software development life cycle. I don't think that GitLab…
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on “GitLab Serverless”Submitted Introducing stateless microservices for OpenFaaS as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI'm currently using k8s in a staging/uat environment (running on a tiny 2 node cluster). So far, I've found it to be super useful in CI, as you can use container orchestration to emulate the larger production IaaS stack with much lower cost and time overhead than, say, a real terraform deployment. And if your team is already drinking the "cloud-native" kool-aid and wanting to use AWS lambda or a similar service, I'd…
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on “Why doesn’t anyone weep for Docker?”Submitted Show HN: Single Sign-On (SSO) for OpenFaaS with Okta and OpenID Connect as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHi Mike, this looks great. I took it for a test-drive with some OpenFaaS functions. https://www.openfaas.com/blog/openfaas-cloudrun/
Comment linking /blog/openfaas-cloudrun/
on “Cloud Run – Newest member of our serverless compute stack”Submitted Five Security Tips for OpenFaaS on Kubernetes as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThis is relatively easy to do with OpenFaaS and Knative on Kubernetes. If we're paying for idle, why not take a look at EKS on Fargate? https://www.openfaas.com
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on “AWS Introducing Provisioned Concurrency for Lambda Functions”Submitted Access your serverless functions from static sites with CORS as a story · 6 points
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