2017-12 December

OpenWhisk  

OpenWhisk is an open source, distributed Serverless computing platform able to execute application logic (Actions) in response to events (Triggers) from external sources (Feeds) or HTTP requests governed by conditional logic (Rules). It provides a programming environment supported by a REST API-based Command Line Interface (CLI) along with tooling to support packaging and catalog services.  Additionally, it now provides options to host the platform components as Docker containers on various Container Frameworks such as Mesos, Kunernetes, and Compose.

   Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:    

1. Est. release process for ZIP of source code
2. Est. release process for Docker and other platform binaries
3. Increase additional company and individual Contributors to maintain all project repos.

   Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be  aware of?    

• It had been our intent to have Apache host our staging (and move it out of disparate private builds within various companies). However, INFRA indicates they only typically allocate 1 VM per project for use with demos and minor things.  They indicate that perhaps a corporate donation is in order (ala. Spark).
  • Goal: standup testing resources at Apache and utilize for public CI and performance testing of OpenWhisk on Kubernetes
  • Needed resources:
    • Minimum 5 worker node kubernetes cluster.  Each worker nodes can be fairly modest (2-4 virtual cores; 4-8GB of memory)
      
      • 2 nodes for control plane: Controller, Kafka,Nginx (each Docker containers)
      • 1 node for CouchDB
      • 2 nodes for Invokers (containers)
    • See discussion here: OpenWhisk / Kubernetes proposed epics/action items/questions
• Formal hand-off of OpenWhisk trademark/logo from IBM needs to be executed; need to identify process for this.
  • Discussion started w/ Apache legal via "legal-discuss" mailing list with subject "Trademark handoff for "OpenWhisk" name and logo".

How has the community developed since the last report?    

• TBD

• The  bi-weekly Zoom "Technical Interchange" continues to be well received and attended.
  
  • Complete videos posted to OW YouTube channel and detailed notes to our CWIKI.
    • YouTube Channel: Apache Meetings Playlist
    • CWiki Meeting Notes: OpenWhisk Technical Interchange Meeting Notes
      
      • 2017-09-27 OW Tech Interchange - Meeting Notes
      • 2017-10-11 OW Tech Interchange - Meeting Notes
      • 2017-10-25 OW Tech Interchange - Meeting Notes
      • 2017-11-08 OW Tech Interchange - Meeting Notes

New Contributors:

• Brendan McAddams: Red Hat: Akka expert working on creating separate Akka dispatchers for CouchDB and Kafka Clients

• Kavitha Vallari Devara: FaaS team in "Open Service Lab of Convergence Team (SW R&D Center): incubator-openwhisk organizing project directory structure.

How has the project developed since the last report?

• incubator-openwhisk Github stars: 2181 (+253 since last report)

• incubator-openwhisk GitHub forks: 469 (+52 since last report)

• TBD: Kubernetes project seeks to enable MiniKube with latest Kube/Docker drivers

Significant Pull Requests (PRs):

• 11/10: Reorganization of the "core" folder to move folders associated with runtimes to "actionRuntimes" in root folder #2933 
• 11/17: Programmatic lazy creation of completedN and invokerN topics #2948 

• 11/17: Initial support for nodejs8 #2958 

• 11/21: Removal of openwhisk cli and cli related test cases #2979 

• 11/23: Enable controller HA by default #2994

• 11/28: Adapt timeouts of controller and nginx. #3010

• 10/27: Emit metrics via kamon #2857

  • This PR implements the capability to send metric information via Kamon (http://kamon.io/) to statsd (https://github.com/etsy/statsd) instead or additionally to the existing metrics information which is written into the system logs.

• 9/27: update apigw end-to-end to be more resilient #2724

Outstanding issues and PRs of note

• C# / .NET Core #3003 

• All Akka related code sharing a single dispatcher #2954 

• Bash kind action #2927 

• Default Python actions to use Python 3 #2725

• Package export/import #2844

Significant. discussions (dev list):

• TBD
  

   How would you assess the podling's maturity?  Please feel free to add your own commentary.    

   [ ] Initial setup

   [X] Working towards first release  

   [X] Community building

   [ ] Nearing graduation  

   [ ] Other:  

Comments:

• Need greater variety of contributors and contributing companies

 Date of last release:    

• N/A   
  

When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?    

• Tyson Norris, Committer, 08/31/2017
  

• James Dubee, PPMC, Committer, 09/05/2017
  

Signed-off-by:    

[ ] (openwhisk) Felix Meschberger   Comments:  

[ ](openwhisk) Isabel Drost-Fromm   Comments:  

[ ](openwhisk) Sergio Fernández   Comments:  

IPMC/Shepherd notes: