This might be of interest although it likely has rotted https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/blob/master/ansible/README_DISTRIBUTED.md
-r > On Mar 27, 2018, at 1:17 PM, Michele Sciabarra <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I have a dream: installing easily OpenWhisk , production grade, everywhere. > Most notably, on AWS, but also on Azure, Digital Ocean and even on bare metal. > > I am aware of the Kubernetes deployment. Everyone is using that, I was told > on Slack. > > Well, the fact is that in general installing Kubernetes is hard. And it adds > a substantial burden on the system to run. > > There are installers for Kubernetes on AWS (kops) and more but they add a > good level of complexity to the installation. > > Furthermore, there are Kafka and Couchdb and afaik they do not play so well > with Kubernetes (I worked months deploying Kafka on Kubernetes so I know). > Couchdb looks like to be on the same league, because of some restrictions on > the deployment due to its design based on Erlang. > > In short, I have the feeling that a better solution would be to able to > deploy OpenWhisk using just virtual machines. VIrtual Machine are not going > away and be replaced by Kubernetes in the foreseeable future and AWS is still > more a "virtual machine" than a container based Cloud. > > So I have this idea of creating an installer, based on docker-machine. I try > to call it "wsk-machine". The idea is that wsk-machine would create a cluster > and deploy it easily a multi node, production ready cluster on everything > that docker-machine supports. > > How crazy (and wrong) sonds this idea? Please tell me it is completely wrong > (and why). > > -- > Michele Sciabarra > [email protected]
