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by bri3d 3041 days ago
It looks like OpenWhisk right now deploys onto JVM application servers you provision yourself, using runc+Docker and Akka clustering under the hood to orchestrate everything. I think they have plans to target Kubernetes as well. FaaS/"serverless" (a terrible name) is just a layer over an orchestration/deployment system (like Kube) that spins up instances in response to triggers / events and handles routing and scheduling of the instances in a way that's supposed to be transparent to the end-user. https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/blob/master/do...