The Fn Project
The Fn Project was originally devised by the team at Iron.io (https://www.iron.io/) under the name of Iron function. After that, the two founders joined Oracle and forked Iron function into the new project, Fn.
Fn is a framework and system designed to develop and deploy serverless/FaaS applications. In contrast to OpenFaaS, Fn does not use any of the orchestrator-level features to manage function containers.
Fn does not only support deployment via its own infrastructure; it also allows you to deploy the same functions to AWS Lambda. However, we will scope only for deploying functions to its own infrastructure, which is, of course, Docker-based.
There are several design reasons behind Fn.
The Fn Project is committed to be open source. It natively supports Docker, which means that we could use a Docker container as its deployment unit—a function. Fn supports development in any programming language. The Fn infrastructure is written in the Go programming language and aims to be able...
