Faasd on Hetzner Cloud

Serverless computing is one of the new hot things so I wanted to check out OpenFaas. It worked as advertised during some experimentation on MicroK8s. The Kubernetes requirement makes sense for scalability and robustness, but adds a lot of overhead and complexity. It’s overkill if you just want to do some simple some simple experiments. Enter faasd. Faasd is “git push” for functions and is much simpler to run than the full OpenFaas.

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