Randstad Docker meetup - Serverless

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Randstad Docker meetup
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David Delabassee - @delabassee
Oracle
January 30, 2019

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Preamble…

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Function As a Service
• Function
• As a Service
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Small bits of code with a well defined job
Easy to understand and maintain
The system takes care of provisioning, patching, scaling, ...
Each function can scale independently

https://jaxenter.com/technologies-dominate-2019-poll-152470.html

https://twitter.com/monkchips/status/1088002995525242880

Coming Soon: Oracle Functions
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Autonomous
Platform auto-scales functions
No servers to provision,
manage
Pay Per Use
Pay for execution, not for idle
time
No Lock-in
Built on open-source Fn
Project and Docker
Oracle Functions
Functions-as-a-Service
Oracle Cloud Integrated
Container Native
Multi-tenant
Secure
Open Source Engine

FaaS Platform – Roles & Responsibilities
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Users Provider

Open-Source Container-Native FaaS Platform
Introducing Fn Project
https://github.com/fnproject

The Ideal FaaS Platform?
Open-Source
Approachable
Container-Native
Language Independent
Scheduler Independent
Platform Independent
No vendor lock-in
Easy for new users
Leverage Docker and its ecosystem
Go, Java, Python, …
K8S, Swarm, Mesos, ...
Cloud, On-Perm, laptop

Fn Architecture
• Fn CLI
• Fn FDK's

Introducing Fn Function
Code wrapped in a Container Image
–Via a “wrapper”
• Input from stdin
• Output to stdout
• Logs to stderr
–Or simply use an FDK!
Fn handles everything else!

Fn and java
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Fn … not just Java
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• Go
• Python
• Node
• Ruby
• …
• bring your own!
– Init-image

fn deploy
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• Build container (multi-stage) + bumps version
• Push container to registry (unless --local)
• Create or update function trigger
SomeFunc:0.0.1
SomeFunc:0.0.1 SomeFunc:0.0.1
User code
Fn Service
somefunc →
/r/app/somefunc:0.0.1

Fn Triggers
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• Entry points for function invocation
• Multiple triggers may call the same function
• HTTP trigger, more coming
$ fn init --runtime node --trigger http hello
…
$ fn list triggers nodeapp
FUNCTION NAME TYPE SOURCE ENDPOINT
hello my-trigger http /hi http://10.8.10.103/t/nodeapp/hello

Logging
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syslog & logspout

Fn and Developers
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• Strong Developer Focus
– E.g. keep using your preferred tool chain
• FDK
• Fn CLI
# fn init
# fn build (optional)
# fn deploy
# fn invoke

DIY Serverless
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• Roles & Responsibilities
– Users and Provider
• Why?
– Don’t Lean into Lock-in, Open is Good, Flexibility is Great
– Specific requirement, e.g. local legislation
– More controls and customization
– Learning, Development, etc.

DIY Serverless
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• Requirements
– Fn Project
– Kubernetes
– Infrastructure
– DevOps Ninja Skills

DIY Serverless
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• Scheduler Agnostic
– Optimizations and additional management work underway for K8S
• Helm chart
– https://github.com/fnproject/fn-helm

DIY Serverless
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• Requirements
– Fn Project
– Kubernetes
– DevOps Ninja Skills
Oracle Container Engine
for Kubernetes

Observability and Analytics with Prometheus & Grafana
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Tracing with OpenTracing and Jaeger
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Customizing and Extending Fn
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• Listeners
– App, Call, Fn and Trigger listeners
– Can listen to various API events and respond to them
• Middleware
– Add functionality for every API request
– Cancel the request or call the next middleware in the chain
– E.g. Authentication middleware that checks headers for a custom token
• Custom API endpoint
– E.g. Custom API endpoint that handles requests to a custom HTTP route

Low Latency
• Hot Functions
• Start Fast
• Run Small(er) images
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Fn Hot functions
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• Cold start time (~300ms) is incurred on a first invocation
• Fn will pause the container for a time, default 30s
• Subsequent invocations will be “hot”, and reset the cooldown

Start Fast
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E.g. Java - Moving Startup Costs to Build-Time
• Class Data Sharing
–Avoid parsing JDK classes on start
• Application CDS
–Avoid parsing App classes on start
• AOT compilation
–Compile App classes to native .so libraries (experimental)

Run Small(er) Images
Small container images = faster start-up
–Transferring images to a host
–COW caches
–Overlay FS
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E.g. Java - Better start-up time

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Remove parts of Java standard library that you don't use
Function and its dependencies
Java runtime
Operating System
Java 11 vs. Java 11 with jlink

Security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution
with 4MB base image
Lightweight, fast, simple, free, C standard library
implementation
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E.g. Java
Project Portola’s goal is to run the JVM on Alpine Linux/Musl

• GraalVM compiles Java source to a single native binary
• Tiny image sizes
• Low VM overhead
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E.g. Java

Fn Project
• Open Source Container Native FaaS Platform
–https://github.com/fnproject
• Development choices
–Go, Java, Node, Python, etc.
• Operation choices
–DIY Serverless
– ➥ Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes + Fn
–➥ FaaS, i.e. Oracle Functions (soon)
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Wrap-up

Coming Soon: Oracle Functions
Function Dev KitsOpen Source Engine
Oracle Cloud Triggers
Events
HTTP
Timer
Streams
Container Native
Advanced DiagnosticsFine-grained Billing

Dank u!

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