The Serverless Research Kit (SRK)

The Serverless Research Kit (SRK) exists to accelerate research progress in serverless computing. It aims to make it easy to innovate on services typically offered by cloud providers by including, for example, readily hackable versions of cloud functions or cloud object storage. SRK also plans to include common benchmarks and operational tools, so that launching and evaluating a multi-tenant serverless service is quick and easy.

You can think of SRK as taking the role of a cloud provider by providing common services through a standard API. Unlike a real cloud provider, SRK is designed to be hackable and pluggable; the same application can run against many implementations of services. In SRK, we use the term service to describe a particular API (e.g. object storage or function-as-a-service) and provider to mean a coherent collection of services (e.g. the AWS provider would use Lambda for FaaS and S3 for object storage while the local provider might use OpenLambda for FaaS and your local filesystem to provide object storage).

Note

This documentation focuses on general usage and configuration for SRK. For detailed API documentation, check out our GoDoc Pages.

Contents:

• Quick Start Tutorial
  • Building SRK
  • Function Source Code
  • SRK Configuration
  • Function Installation
  • Function Invocation
  • Next Steps
• Configuring SRK
  • Installation
  • Configuration Files
  • Configuration Options
• Examples
  • Running GPU-Enabled Functions