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That's interesting. Serverless is a general computing engine that can
brings lots of possibility of how to make use of resource managed by
OpenStack. I'd like to see a purely OpenStack-powered solution there.

Do you have submitted a proposal to create this project under
OpenStack umbrella?

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Lingxian Kong <anlin.kong at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I am recreating the wheels :-)
>
> I am sending this email not intend to say Qinling[1] project is a better
> option than others as a project of function as a service, I just provide
> another
> possibility for developers/operators already in OpenStack world, and try my
> luck to seek people who have the same interest in serverless area and
> cooperate
> together to make it more and more mature if possible, because I see
> serverless
> becomes more and more popular in current agile IT world but I don't see
> there
> is a good candidate in OpenStack ecosystem.
>
> I remember I asked the question that if we have a FaaS available project in
> OpenStack, what I got are something like: Picasso[2], OpenWhisk[3], etc, but
> IMHO, none of them can be well integrated with OpenStack ecosystem. I don't
> mean they are not good, on the contrary, they are good, especially OpenWhisk
> which is already deployed and available in IBM Bluemix production. Picasso
> is
> only a very thin proxy layer to IronFunctions which is an open source
> project
> comes from Iron.io company who also has a commercial FaaS product.
>
> However, there are several reasons make me create a new project:
>
> - Maybe not many OpenStack operators/developers want to touch a project
>   written in another programming language besides Python (and maybe Go? not
> sure
>   the result of TC resolution). The deployment/dependency management/code
>   maintenance will bring much more overhead.
>
> - I'd like to see a project which is using the similar
>   components/infrastructure as most of the other OpenStack projects, e.g.
>   keystone authentication, message queue(in order to receive notification
> from
>   Panko then trigger functions), database, oslo library, swift(for code
>   package storage), etc. Of course, I could directly contribute and modify
>   some existing project(e.g. Picasso) to satisfy these conditions, but I am
>   afraid the time and effort it could take is exactly the same as if I
> create
>   a new one.
>
> - I'd like to see a project with no vendor/platform lock-in. Most of the
> FaaS
>   projects are based on one specific container orchestration platform or
> want
>   to promote usage of its own commercial product. For me, it's always a good
>   thing to have more technical options when evaluating a new service.
>
> Qinling project is still at the very very early stage. I created it one
> month ago
> and work on it only in my spare time. But it works, you can see a basic
> usage
> introduction in README.rst and give it a try. A lot of things are still
> missing, CLI, UT, devstack plugin, UI, etc.
>
> Of course, you can ignore me (still appreciate you read here) if you think
> it's really not necessary and stupid to create such a project in OpenStack,
> or you can join me to discuss what we could do to improve it gradually and
> provide a better option for a real function as a service to people in
> OpenStack world.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/LingxianKong/qinling
> [2]: https://github.com/openstack/picasso
> [3]: https://github.com/openwhisk/openwhisk
>
> Cheers,
> Lingxian Kong (Larry)
>
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