What is faasd?
It is the same OpenFaaS experience and ecosystem, but without Kubernetes. Functions and microservices can be deployed anywhere with reduced overheads whilst retaining the portability of containers and cloud-native tooling such as containerd and CNI.
faasd is a tool in the Serverless / Task Processing category of a tech stack.
faasd is an open source tool with 3K GitHub stars and 214 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to faasd's open source repository on GitHub
faasd Integrations
DigitalOcean, Linux, Windows, macOS, and Raspberry Pi are some of the popular tools that integrate with faasd. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with faasd.
faasd's Features
- A single Golang binary
- Can be set-up and left alone to run your applications
- Multi-arch, so works on Intel x86_64 and ARM out the box
- Uses the same core components and ecosystem of OpenFaaS
faasd Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to faasd?
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
Amazon EC2
It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
It is a comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.
