I have seen the Lean Whisk project and indeed it is very interesting. What I am proposing here is not however a "lean" version of Whisk, it is a pure development tool. A simple "runner" for runtimes as is, to be useful when you develop, especially with compiled languages like go, where even if is is possible to compile a go action on the fly, it takes too much time anyway to be practical.
-- Michele Sciabarra [email protected] ----- Original message ----- From: David Breitgand <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Pavel Kravchenco <[email protected]> Subject: Re: MiniWhisk: what you think? Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 20:17:00 +0300 Hi Michele, There is a PR we've submitted on Lean OpenWhisk ( https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/pull/3886) There is also a blog here: https://medium.com/openwhisk/lean-openwhisk-open-source-faas-for-edge-computing-fb823c6bbb9b Would you like to look at it and see if it will be good enough for what you want to achieve. The idea is to have OW (an actual one based on the Controller and Invoker upstream), but with a very small memory footprint. Thanks. -- david From: Michele Sciabarra <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 25/07/2018 08:02 PM Subject: MiniWhisk: what you think? Hello, in the process of developing some examples for the goproxy, I realized I want a tool to make easier developing go actions locally. While it is generally acceptable to deploy your actions straight to the IBM Cloud for example when you code in Javascript (or Python) it is less desiderable for Go because compilation time in the cloud is not so fast as it is when compiled locally, and you have the additional time of uploading a binary that is generally bigger than javascript actions. SO I ended up with this idea of the "miniwhisk". I am posting here to see if it is acceptable or... there are better solutions. My idea of the miniwhisk is a "single action " executor. It should work more or less this way: $ miniwhisk /path/of/action -runtime openwhisk/actionloop-go-v1.10:master -watch *.go -build make -action demo This command will launch the runtime "openwhisk/actionloop-go-v1.10:master" using docker run, then will watch the files specified with "-w". When a file changes, it will execute the build command (-build) and then execute and "init" of the action runtime, post the action to the runtime as an init. Additional (and most importantly) it starts a webserver that will listen to /path/of/action for GET and POST and will then translate requests in appropriate /run posts for the runtime. Basically it is a tool to develop an action in go locally simulating what would happen when run in the real OpenWhisk. How does sound the idea? Is it worth the effort? -- Michele Sciabarra [email protected]
