IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk: Serverless Conference 2017, Austin, USA: Keynote

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IBM Bluemix
OpenWhisk
Keynote
@jrmcgee

IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk
Agenda
1. Evolution of serverless
2. What is serverless aka FaaS?
3. Bluemix: What is it?
4. OpenWhisk: What is it & what’s new?
5. What is serverless good for?
6. Q&A

IBM Bluemix OpenWhiskEvolution of serverless
Increasingfocusonbusinesslogic
Decreasing concern (and control) over stack implementation
Bare Metal
VM VM
VM
Virtual machines
Functions
Containers

Runs code only on-demand on
a per-request basis
Serverless
deployment &
operations model
VM
No servers Just code
Evolution of serverless

Runs code in response to
events
Event-
programming
model
Evolution of serverless

IBM Bluemix OpenWhiskBluemix
Your Own Hosted Apps / Services
Platform Deployment Options to meet Workload Requirements
Bluemix
Public
Bluemix
Dedicated
Bluemix
Local*
Powered by IBMSoftLayer In Your Data Center
Flexible Compute Options to Run Apps
Containers Virtual Machines
DevOps
Tooling
+
Integration
& API Mgmt
+
Catalog of Services that Extend Apps Functionality
Web Data Mobile AnalyticsCognitive IoT Security Yours
+
US-South,EU-GB,AU-SYD
Event Runtimes Instant Runtimes
Bluemix is built on 4
key open compute
technologies:
OpenWhisk, Cloud
Foundry, Docker, and
OpenStack, and
delivered by 3
deployment options:
Public, Dedicated and
Local.
It extends each of
these with a growing
number of services,
robust DevOps
tooling, integration
capabilities, and a
seamless developer
experience.

Agenda
1. Evolution of serverless
2. What is serverless aka FaaS?
3. Bluemix: What is new?
4. OpenWhisk: What is it & what’s new?
5. What is serverless good for?
6. Q&A

IBM Bluemix OpenWhiskOpenWhisk
FaaS platform
to execute code
in response to
events
What is OpenWhisk?

Available as 
open source via Apache
openwhisk.org
FaaS platform to execute code
in response to events
OpenWhisk

FaaS platform to execute code
in response to events
OpenWhisk
Also available as managed service on 
IBM Bluemix
bluemix.net/openwhisk

Triggers
(response)
Rules
Actions
(code)
Source
(events) Results
OpenWhisk
Concepts

Supported
Languages
JS/NodeJS Swift
Python
Java Docker
Go Haskell
Scala . . .
Multi-
language
Support
Community
Efforts
… and more to come
JS/NodeJS 6
Java
Python 3
Swift 3
Docker
Haskell
…
Scala
New

Non-blocking
Blocking
Periodic
Support for
different invocation
models

Supports
higher-level
programming
constructs Chaining/
Sequencing
Action 1
Action 2
Parameter
Binding
Default Name
Default
Parameters
Default Value

Event
Provider
Open event emitter
(consumer ecosystem)
Open interface 
for event emitters

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Event
Provider Periodic IBM Cloudant Message Hub  
(binary data)
Mobile Push Github
OpenWhisk
IBM App Connect
New
New

zzz
time
chargedGranular pricing
Pay only for the exact time your actions run. When
an action is not invoked, it’s not in memory, so you
don’t pay anything.

Memory
allocated
(MB)
Time executing
(milliseconds)
Instances
executing
simultaneously
(count)
Reduce Costs
Time an action was running 
* memory allocated to action 
 
$ 0.000017 per GBs
Free tier: 400000 GBs

Controller
…Invoker InvokerInvoker
Apache OpenWhisk

Cloudant
ELK-Stack
Controller
Integration
Service
soon
…InvokerInvokerInvoker
Monitoring

New
API Gateway
support
Allows to map API endpoints to
OpenWhisk actions. 
API Gateway takes care of security,
control (e.g. rate limiting), mediation,
parameter mapping, schema
validation & supports different verbs
GA Now

Gives you full control over HTTP
request/response from within an
action
New
Web actions
Serverless microservice APIs/backend
What is OpenWhisk good for?
Another way to invoke an action is via
our newest web action capabilities.
Those OpenWhisk actions quickly
enable you to build web based
applications. Allowing backend logic
which your web application can
access anonymously without requiring
an OpenWhisk authentication key. It is
up to the action developer to
hello
Client
Openwhisk
IBM Cloudant
Enable Action to be a WebAction

Allows to use Kong as an alternative
open & vendor-agnostic API
Gateway
New
Kong plug-in 
for OpenWhisk
Serverless microservice APIs/backend

Allows to package all puzzle pieces of
a server less application into a single
project and deploy it in a vendor-
agnostic way.
Now available: v0.6
New
Improved Serverless
Framework support

Integration with 
New
Allows OpenWhisk to work with today’s
stream-based applications; stream
data to/from OpenWhisk and leverage
PubNub BLOCKS for lightweight
compute in the network.
Bringing OpenWhisk to Realtime Applications

Community
efforts to
integrate with
open tools
• VS Code
• NodeRED
• Jupyter Notebooks
• …

DEMO

IBM Bluemix OpenWhiskOpenWhisk & Containers
Basically, OpenWhisk is based on
Docker… but we added some
smartness to meet our performance
goals…
Behind the scenes:
It’s about containers

A =
wsk action invoke docker run
≈
OpenWhisk & Containers

Start container
docker run
Initialize
/init
Run
/run
cold container

Start container
docker run
Initialize
/init
Run
/run
39
pre-warmed container

Start container
docker run
Initialize
/init
Run
/run
warm container

cold container pre-warmed container warm container
faster
Performance is king…

Already added support for Docker
Compose…
New
Container
abstraction & more

Adobe added support for Mesos…
New
Container
abstraction & more

Community currently working on
adding support for Kubernetes…
https://github.com/openwhisk/openwhisk/issues/2089 
https://github.com/openwhisk/openwhisk/issues/1402
New
Container
abstraction

This ecosystem allows you… 
… to run short running scalable functions in a serverless fashion and 
… longer running processes on a containerized infrastructure also forming the basis for the said serverless platform
New
Container
abstraction

IBM Bluemix OpenWhiskWhat is serverless good for?
OpenWhisk allows
you to build up an
entirely serverless
application
architecture
Openwhisk
IOT
Mobile
Cognitive
APIs
Data

IBM Bluemix OpenWhiskWhat is serverless good for?
Volatile workload that can
be split in smaller short-
running pieces.
Suited for sporadic as well
as heavy load scenarios.

IBM Bluemix OpenWhiskCustomers and Partners
Customers and Partners
ClientsPartners

Data
processing
Openwhisk
IBM Cloudant
http://ecc.ibm.com/case-
study/us-en/ECCF-
CDC12387USEN
What do our customers do with OpenWhisk?
10x faster 
90% less cost

Data
processing
Openwhisk
IBM Cloudant
Less cost  
<$2 for all paper checks
processed within 1 year

Articoolo
http://articoolo.com/

Commercial offering home:
bluemix.net/openwhisk
Open-source offering home:
openwhisk.org
Slack:
slack.openwhisk.org
Learn more
Learn
more

Github github.com/openwhisk
Twitter twitter.com/openwhisk
Medium medium.com/openwhisk
Slideshare slideshare.net/OpenWhisk
Youtube youtube.com/channel/
UCbzgShnQk8F43NKsvEYA1SA
Learn more
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