--- title: Open Source Serverless Solutions for Kubernetes | daily.dev description: A survey of open source serverless platforms for Kubernetes as of early 2019, walking chronologically through Apache OpenWhisk, Fission, Kubeless, OpenFaaS,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-serverless-solutions-for-kubernetes-zpzxtjoj4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Open Source Serverless Solutions for Kubernetes | daily.dev og:description: A survey of open source serverless platforms for Kubernetes as of early 2019, walking chronologically through Apache OpenWhisk, Fission, Kubeless, OpenFaaS,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-serverless-solutions-for-kubernetes-zpzxtjoj4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZpZxTJOJ4.png og:image:alt: Open Source Serverless Solutions for Kubernetes og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Open Source Serverless Solutions for Kubernetes **[Teleport](https://daily.dev/sources/teleport)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A survey of open source serverless platforms for Kubernetes as of early 2019, walking chronologically through Apache OpenWhisk, Fission, Kubeless, OpenFaaS, and Knative. The piece argues that Knative, backed by roughly 90 Google engineers and deep GCP/GKE integration, is emerging as the consolidation point for the ecosystem, with other projects like Kubeless drifting into maintenance mode as their creators move on. It also frames the broader industry tension between AWS Lambda's proprietary approach and Kubernetes-native open source alternatives, and briefly lists other contenders (Fn, Riff, Dispatch, Nuclio) and hosted options (Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions, Cloudflare Workers). ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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