tinyFaaS

A Lightweight FaaS Platform for Edge Environments

If you use this software in a publication, please cite it as:

Text

T. Pfandzelter and D. Bermbach, tinyFaaS: A Lightweight FaaS Platform for Edge Environments, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC), Sydney, Australia, 2020, pp. 17-24, doi: 10.1109/ICFC49376.2020.00011.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{pfandzelter_tinyfaas:_2020,
	title = {tinyFaaS: A Lightweight FaaS Platform for Edge Environments},
	booktitle = {2020 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC)},
	author = {Pfandzelter, Tobias and Bermbach, David},
	year = {2020},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	pages = 17--24
}

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License

The code in this repository is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

Instructions

To start this tinyFaaS implementation, simply build and start the management service in a Docker container. It will then create the gateway in a separate container.

To build the management service container, run: docker build -t tinyfaas-mgmt .

Then start the container with: docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -p 8080:8080 --name tinyfaas-mgmt -d tinyfaas-mgmt tinyfaas-mgmt

This ensures that the management service has access to Docker on the host and it will then expose port 8080 to accept incoming request.

To deploy a function (e.g. the "Sieve of Erasthostenes"), run: curl http://localhost:8080 --data '{"path": "sieve-of-erasthostenes", "resource": "/sieve/primes", "entry": "sieve.js", "threads": 4}' -v