Re:Knative – Kubernetes-based platform to manage modern serv...
by yebyen on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @06:09PM
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Awesome! That's totally understandable, your non-response was actually a hint that you were up to something, so it's good to see what it was. So I'm not that surprised to find you here in this discussion.
I'll check it out in more detail when I'm back in front of a computer! Glad to see the rails logo somewhere new, too.
> It looks like not a lot of people are interested in Ruby on serverless platforms. Can you shed any light on why?
I imagine there's some mix of market demand and path dependency. A lot of folks who like experimenting moved onwards to the Node ecosystem and a lot of FaaS work has happened there. Meanwhile enterprises are heavily invested in Java and .NET.
The riff team at the moment is pretty small. One thing coming up is to fold buildpacks into the code->running pathway for riff. This should make it easier for the riff team to get out of the business of supporting particular ecosystems and for some of the engineering work for buildpacks to be shared amongst multiple setups.
In terms of starting with Rails today, it should be possible to use the buildpacks BuildTemplate to run the existing Ruby buildpack. I don't know if it's working, it's early days for heavy automation of development on Knative itself.