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Project LaOS aka Lambdas-on-OpenStack
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Mission
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Provide capabilities to run software in "serverless" way.
Serverless
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Serverless is a new paradigm in computing that enables simplicity,
efficiency and scalability for both developers and operators.
It's important to distinguish the two, because the benefits differ:
Benefits for developers
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The main benefits that most people refer to are on the developer side and they include:
* No servers to manage (serverless) -- you just upload your code and the platform deals with the infrastructure
* Super simple coding -- no more monoliths! Just simple little bits of code
* Pay by the milliseconds your code is executing -- unlike a typical application that runs 24/7, and you're paying
24/7, functions only run when needed
Benefits for operators
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If you will be operating IronFunctions (the person who has to manage the servers behind the serverless),
then the benefits are different, but related.
* Extremely efficient use of resources
* Unlike an app/API/microservice that consumes resources 24/7 whether they
are in use or not, functions are time sliced across your infrastructure and only consume resources while they are
actually doing something
* Easy to manage and scale
* Single system for code written in any language or any technology
* Single system to monitor
* Scaling is the same for all functions, you don't scale each app independently
* Scaling is simply adding more IronFunctions nodes
System requirements
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* Operating system: Linux/MacOS
* Python version: 3.5 or greater
* Database: MySQL 5.7 or greater
Quick-start guide
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Install DevStack with [IronFunctions enabled](https://github.com/iron-io/functions-devstack-plugin/blob/master/README.rst).
Pull down [Project LaOS sources](https://github.com/iron-io/project-laos).
Create Python3.5 virtualenv:
$ virtualenv -p python3.5 .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate
Install dependencies:
$ pip install -r requirements.txt -r test-requirements.txt
Install `functions_python` lib:
$ pip install -e git+ssh://git@github.com/iron-io/functions_python.git#egg=functions-python
Install LaOS itself:
$ pip install -e .
Migrations
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Once all dependencies are installed it is necessary to run database migrations.
Before that please edit [alembic.ini](alembic.ini) line #32
sqlalchemy.url = mysql+pymysql://root:root@192.168.0.112/functions
In this section please specify connection URI to your own database.
Once it is done just hit alembic to apply migrations:
$ alembic upgrade head
Starting a server
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Once it is finished you will have a console script `laos-api`:
$ laos-api --help
Usage: laos-api [OPTIONS]
Starts an Project Laos API service
Options:
--host TEXT API service bind host.
--port INTEGER API service bind port.
--db-uri TEXT LaOS persistence storage URI.
--keystone-endpoint TEXT OpenStack Identity service endpoint.
--functions-host TEXT Functions API host
--functions-port INTEGER Functions API port
--functions-api-version TEXT Functions API version
--functions-api-protocol TEXT Functions API protocol
--log-level TEXT Logging file
--log-file TEXT Log file path
--help Show this message and exit.
Minimum required options to start LaOS API service:
--db-uri mysql://root:root@192.168.0.112/functions
--keystone-endpoint http://192.168.0.112:5000/v3
--functions-host 192.168.0.112
--functions-port 10501
--log-level INFO
Examining API
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In [examples](examples/) folder you can find a script that examines available API endpoints, but this script relays on:
* `LAOS_API_URL` - Project LaOS API endpoint
* `OS_AUTH_URL` - OpenStack Auth URL
* `OS_PROJECT_ID` - it can be found in OpenStack Dashboard or in CLI
Along with that, you need to adjust [token_request.json](examples/token_request.json) in order to retrieve X-Auth-Token for further authentication against OpenStack and LaOS API service.
Then just run script:
OS_AUTH_URL=http://192.168.0.112:5000/v3 OS_PROJECT_ID=8fb76785313a4500ac5367eb44a31677 ./hello-lambda.sh
Please note, that given values are project-specific, so they can't be reused.
TODOs
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* Create aiohttp swagger API using [aiohttp-swagger](https://github.com/cr0hn/aiohttp-swagger)
* Support app deletion in IronFunctions
* Support tasks listing/showing
* Tests: integration, functional, units
* better logging coverage
* Support logging instance passing in [function-python](https://github.com/iron-io/functions_python)
* python-laosclient (ReST API client and CLI tool)
* App writing examples
Contacts
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Feel free to reach us out at:
* [Slack channel](https://open-iron.herokuapp.com/)
* [Email](https://github.com/denismakogon)