Alex Ellis

Learn how GitHub Actions and OpenFaaS can be used for simple functions at the edge of your network. Includes a live-stream with Martin Woodward on YouTube showing how it all works.

Today the Raspberry Pi Foundation released the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. I'm going to share my thoughts and experiences with it. Can you run containers? Can you run OpenFaaS? What about K3s? Is it worth buying or will it gather dust? Feature for GitHub Actions - as Martin Woodward asked for folks to test this out. Includes some tweets to show what it looks like.

Every once in a while someone comes into your life who makes a lasting impression. For OpenFaaS, there’ve now been 350 of those people, from all around the world each with individual stories and achievements to share. They all had a common interest: they wrote Go and believed that functions should be easy to use and portable. This is their story 5 years after it started. Alex shares why he started the project, the highs and lows along the way from quitting his job, to going toe-to-toe with corporate giants. He’ll tell the story through the contributors, and community that helped build and shape the project which now has 28k GitHub Stars and dozens of end-user companies in production.

Alex tells us what OpenFaaS is, how adoption has gone, and how many people have used it and committed to it. Alex goes in depth about some of his other projects he created, recently being invited to join **GitHub Stars program**, and three eBooks he self-published that you should check out online! Go ahead and download this episode now!

There's been some talk on Twitter recently about a new feature emerging on GitHub Actions. It allows an action to mint an OpenID Connect (OIDC) token, which can then be used to deploy artifacts into other systems and clouds. I'll give you a bit of context, then show you the AWS and GCP story, followed by how I integrated this with OpenFaaS so that a set list of users on GitHub could deploy to my OpenFaaS cluster without having to give them any credentials.

In this article, I'll introduce I want to dig a little deeper into John's words and what that means for us today. We'll also look at a very practical use-case for the Internet is my computer through hosted IDEs which have a number of different benefits and users. As a CNCF Ambassador, I'll also be asking what role Kubernetes has to play here and giving my personal take on hosted IDEs.

I wrote a book about Everyday Go techniques, tools and examples based upon 6 years of industry experience on both internal tools at enterprise companies and large open source projects like OpenFaaS. It's my third e-book and reception has been very positive so far, check it out if you're at a beginner/intermediate level.

Grow your own with the Raspberry Pi for less than 30 dollars #growlab is what happens when you combine nature and technology with a global community. Everyone is welcome to join #growlab, whether you're participating in the timelapse contest, or just wanting to connect with others and grow your own. You'll be able to get started for under 30 dollars, less if you already own a Raspberry Pi and a camera module. Participating in a community, giving to others, being present in the current moment and learning new skills have been shown to improve wellbeing.

arkade provides a portable marketplace for downloading your favourite devops CLIs and installing helm charts, with a single command. There's now 44+ contributors, with several regulars forming an essential part of the community.

A few of the highlights https://github.com/readme/alex-ellis https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup https://github.com/alexellis/derek https://blog.alexellis.io https://openfaas.com/ https://inlets.dev/

The team at GitHub interviewed me about my journey with open source and independent business. Find out more about my roots, and what keeps me going.

faasd is OpenFaaS reimagined, but without the cost and complexity of Kubernetes. It runs on a single host with very modest requirements, making it fast and easy to manage. Use it for your side-projects or even at work. To learn use-cases with real-world examples, checkout my eBook Serverless For Everyone Else in the repo.