Nathan TarbertThe seven open-source projects I will mention are not only essential tools for cloud-native innovation, but they also offer a strategic advantage in today's fast-paced digital world.
In this article, I have put together key points that set these open-source projects to the level of AWESOME! 🚀
1. Winglang
Wing has introduced a programming language called Winglang, a cloud-oriented programming language that allows developers to build distributed systems, leveraging cloud services as first-class citizens.
The language introduces two execution phases, preflight and inflight, which are connected in a way that delegates the creation of IAM policies and network topologies to the compiler.
This connection helps to explain the value of the inflight and preflight concepts, as it allows developers to focus on business logic instead of cloud mechanics, thereby accelerating iteration cycles and improving the creative flow.
The magic is in the preflight and inflight execution phases:
Preflight: Code that runs once, at compile time, and generates the infrastructure configuration of your cloud application. For example, setting up databases, queues, storage buckets, API endpoints, etc.
Inflight: Code that runs at runtime and implements your application's behavior. For example, handling API requests, processing queue messages, etc. Inflight code can be executed on various computing platforms in the cloud, such as function services (such as AWS Lambda or Azure Functions), containers (such as ECS or Kubernetes), VMs, or even physical servers. 👇
2. Fission
Fission is a framework for serverless functions on Kubernetes.
Write short-lived functions in any language, and map them to HTTP requests (or other event triggers).
Deploy functions instantly with one command. There are no containers to build, and no Docker registries to manage.
3. OpenFaaS
Run your code anywhere with the same unified experience and deploy OpenFaaS anywhere you have Kubernetes.
Deploy a new function to production within a few minutes, knowing it will scale to meet demand.
Invoke functions through events from Apache Kafka, AWS SQS, Postgresql, Cron, and MQTT.
4. Space Cloud
Space Cloud is an open-source, kubernetes based platform that lets you build, scale, and secure cloud-native apps at scale.
It provides instant GraphQL and REST APIs for your database and microservices that can be consumed directly from your front end in a secure manner.
Deploys and scales your docker images on Kubernetes.
5. Pulumi
Manage infrastructure, secrets, and configurations intuitively on any cloud.
Author infrastructure code using programming languages you know and love. Write statements to define infrastructure using your IDE with autocomplete, type checking, and documentation.
Test your code with unit tests and deliver it through CI/CD pipelines to validate and deploy to any cloud.
6. Gitpod
Be inspired,
check dependencies, checkout branch, viewreadme.txt, install tools, run build, run test,
start building.
Context-switch between environments, no waiting, no conflicts.
Share preview environments per branch for faster feedback from developers to designers to QA.
7. Knative
Knative Serving builds on Kubernetes to support deploying and serving of applications and functions as serverless containers.
Rapid deployment of serverless containers
Automatic scaling up and down to zero
Routing and network programming
Point-in-time snapshots of deployed code and configurations
Thank you for checking out these seven POWERFUL open-source projects that you should consider when building in the cloud.🥇
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