OpenFaaS Edge is designed specifically for redistribution - distributing your developed functions to end customers as part of your product or solution.
Industry Examples
Edge is ideal for industries that need to deploy automation to customer sites:
Run the battle-tested version of OpenFaaS in production, with support and regular updates.
Reduced time to market
With dozens of language templates, access to private NPM, maven, gradle, Nuget and Go code repositories from faas-cli, you'll be able to ship code in a short period of time with the languages you already use.
The reliability your customers need
OpenFaaS Standard with JetStream brings at least once semantics and a highly scalable queue with built in metrics showing the amount of work left to process. Failed requests can be retried, and additional named queues can be added as you grow.
Highly scalable
Kubernetes uses a generic autoscaler that was never built to scale functions. OpenFaaS Pro scaling can be fine-tuned to any workload. You can pick from Requests Per Second (RPS), CPU usage or Capacity (the amount of connections). Capacity mode scales slow running functions and ETL workloads which neither the Community Edition or Kubernetes can.
Just as important as scaling up, scaling down to zero keeps costs low whilst retaining the benefits.
Compliance matters
OpenFaaS Standard supports Istio and Linkerd for mutual TLS encryption between functions. OpenFaaS for Enterprises includes Single-Sign On, auditing and Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
Pro's integration with ArgoCD, FluxCD through Custom Resources Definitions (CRDs) means that you can audit deployments through git, and make SOC2 compliance easier to achieve.
Find problems before they find you
OpenFaaS Pro comes with Grafana dashboards showing you everything that could go wrong with a function, from errors due to timeouts, increasing latency, spikes in CPU and memory leaks. You'll be able to fix these issues before your customers even see them.
Collaborate and contribute
In the Customer Community, you'll get early access to new features and be able to leave feedback and suggestions for things that would make OpenFaaS better for your team. Rest assured that with OpenFaaS For Enterprises, you get an SLA and direct access to our engineering team via Slack.
Data Engineer
Fortune 500, Financial services
How satisfied have you been with the insights and outcomes that we've provided?
"Very satisfied. There hasn't been a time when talking through things with you hasn't helped our team. You have helped us with quite a few different things from architecture suggestions to debugging issues."
Anything else you'd like to let them know?
"OpenFaaS is a great platform and Alex's team is a great resource. They will work very diligently with your team to help you get the most out of OpenFaaS, and they will always be able to provide valuable insight into issues that a team might face while developing software for the cloud."
Shaked Askayo
CTO, Kubiya.ai
How did you evaluate and decide on OpenFaaS? “Exploring serverless orchestration on Kubernetes at Kubiya, we encountered powerful platforms like Knative, yet found them overly complex to manage. OpenFaaS struck the perfect balance. It combines dynamic elasticity, intuitive function packaging, a robust API and comprehensive metrics. With secure namespace isolation for managing multi-tenant environments, OpenFaaS has proven to be a perfect fit for our needs.”
Artyom Sivkov
Engineering Director, Waylay.io
As a long term customer, what would you say about OpenFaaS for Enterprises? "At Waylay.io, OpenFaaS is our default choice when it comes to building robust, performant and scalable solutions for both SaaS and on-premises deployments. We especially value the constant evolution of OpenFaaS that brings more and more added value to our products and attention of OpenFaaS team to our requests and feedback."
Clyde Seepersad
SVP and GM Training & Certification, The Linux Foundation
"Alex and team were great partners [for the Introduction to Serverless on Kubernetes course], providing high quality course materials on time, and following the launch, they were very supportive in getting the word out. We look forward to continued collaboration.”
Billy Forester
Checkpoint Software Limited
When you or your team has had a problem with OpenFaaS or your functions, how quickly have we responded to you? "When reaching out on Slack my needs are met very quickly. In almost all cases I recieve a response the same business day even on UK holidays."
How satisfied have you been with the insights and outcomes that we've provided? "Most of my questions have revolved around what is considered to be “best practice” inside of the OpenFaas ecosystem. I have always recieved detailed information as to why something should be done a certain way or what the alternatives are if any."
Is there a specific example you can share of how we helped? "The biggest difference I noticed in the early days of adoption is how helpful the OpenFaaS team was when I was going through the onboarding process. I had a lot of questions about very specific needs. All of these questions were easily answered and examples were provided. If you are trying to solve a unique problem, Alex's perspective has always been valuable."
