Fission is a fast serverless framework for Kubernetes with a focus on developer productivity and high performance.
Fission operates on just the code: Docker and Kubernetes are abstracted away under normal operation, though you can use both to extend Fission if you want to.
Fission is extensible to any language; the core is written in Go, and language-specific parts are isolated in something called environments (more below). Fission currently supports NodeJS and Python, with more languages coming soon.
Fission maintains a pool of "warm" containers that each contain a small dynamic loader. When a function is first called, i.e. "cold-started", a running container is chosen and the function is loaded. This pool is what makes Fission fast: cold-start latencies are typically about 100msec.
We're built on Kubernetes because we think any non-trivial app will use a combination of serverless functions and more conventional microservices, and Kubernetes is a great framework to bring these together seamlessly.
Building on Kubernetes also means that anything you do for operations on your Kubernetes cluster — such as monitoring or log aggregation — also helps with ops on your Fission deployment.
A function is a piece of code that follows the fission function interface.
An environment contains the language- and runtime-specific parts of running a function. Fission comes with NodeJS and Python environments; you can also extend environments or create entirely new ones if you want. (An environment is essentially just a container with a webserver and dynamic loader.)
A trigger is something that maps an event to a function; Fission supports HTTP routes as triggers today, with upcoming support for other types of event triggers, such as timers and Kubernetes events.
# Add the stock NodeJS env to your Fission deployment
$ fission env create --name nodejs --image fission/node-env
# A javascript one-liner that prints "hello world"
$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fission/fission/master/examples/nodejs/hello.js > hello.js
# Upload your function code to fission
$ fission function create --name hello --env nodejs --code hello.js
# Map GET /hello to your new function
$ fission route create --method GET --url /hello --function hello
# Run the function. This takes about 100msec the first time.
$ curl http://$FISSION_ROUTER/hello
Hello, world!See the examples directory for more.
See the installation guide.
See the compilation guide.
Fission is in early alpha. It's not suitable for production use just yet.
We're looking for early developer feedback -- if you do use Fission, we'd love to hear how it's working for you, what parts in particular you'd like to see improved, and so on. Talk to us on slack or twitter.