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FaaS deployment is simplified by serverless frameworks, enabling rapid deployment of serverless architectures. But a variety of frameworks are now available, each with its own special advantages and disadvantages. Here is a list of various well-known serverless frameworks with information on their capabilities and use cases to assist you in making the appropriate choice.
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Serverless Frameworks for Deploying Serverless Applications
Serverless Framework Helps you quickly develop, deploy, and manage serverless applications with Lambda and other FaaS platforms. Supports Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, Apache OpenWhisk, Kubeless, and more. Automatically creates the infrastructure needed for your configured functions and events. Also provider-agnostic, allowing you to package and deploy applications across multiple clouds, for example, Google Cloud, Azure, AWS, etc.
Serverless Framework Unique features: Free and open-source, supported by a large community Simple, abstract syntax in YAML Supports multiple languages such as Node.js, Python, Java, Go, C#, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, PHP, and more CLI (command-line interface) for structure, automation, and out-of-the-box practices Dashboard for a centralized view of infrastructure, performance, logs, errors, etc Numerous useful built-in commands and monitoring tools Allows Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Extensible via plugins Use cases of Serverless Framework Event streaming pipelines Image and video manipulation IoT applications Processing events and SaaS Multi-language apps CI/CD deployment
AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) As the official serverless deployment framework from AWS, it facilitates the development, deployment, and debugging of serverless applications in the AWS ecosystem. SAM’s shorthand syntax allows developers to define resources in just a few lines, which may take a hundred lines in AWS CloudFormation. Moreover, it supports image-based Lambda functions using Docker, further simplifying serverless development.
AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Unique features: Single deployment configuration, as all related resources are versioned together as a single entity Seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines SAM CLI that provides a Lambda-like execution environment facilitating local building, testing, and debugging of applications SAM Accelerate for cloud based development, Integrates with a suite of other AWS serverless tools Has numerous useful in-built SAM CLI commands Inherent AWS security best practices Integrates with CDK Access to a list of policy templates to scope permissions for Lambda functions Use cases of Serverless Framework For deploying multiple Lambda as a part of a larger application If you want to use CloudFormation as IaC tools If there is no creation of resources outside of AWS
Terraform Terraform is an automation scripting tool similar to AWS CloudFormation. It is used to create, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud providers and services. It also allows you to scale and monitor multi-tier app architectures seamlessly. Moreover, Terraform lets you spin up parallel environments rapidly for development, QA, testing, and production.
Terraform Unique features: An open-source tool with a large community Human-readable configuration files with friendly, declarative syntax Features such as visible planning, graphing, and more Automates provisioning of serverless application resources and infrastructure deployments Safely and efficiently manages and provisions for infrastructure throughout the lifecycle Manages low-level components as well as high-level components (SaaS features, DNS entries) Allows you to create templates to break configurations into smaller chunks for better organization, maintainability, and reusability Use cases of Serverless Framework Build self-service clusters Enforce policy compliance and management Platform as a Service (PaaS) application setup Software-Defined Networking Create software demos
AWS Chalice AWS Chalice is a framework for building serverless applications in Python. It provides a microframework that allows you to quickly write and deploy applications using AWS Lambda and API Gateway. Chalice automatically provisions for the necessary resources, letting you run and deploy web apps and serverless microservices quickly.
AWS Chalice Unique features: Built-in support for python packaging tools Familiar decorator-based syntax which shortens the learning curve Integrates with AWS SAM, Terraform, CloudFormation, and more such tools Saves development time on defining resources separately
Claudia.js Claudia.js is an open-source tool that allows developers to deploy Node projects into AWS Lambda and API Gateway with just one or two lines of code. It automates deployment tasks and configuration and sets up the JavaScript environment automatically. Moreover, it can be run both as client-side code or serverless functions without worrying about hosting, scalability, etc.
Claudia.js Unique features: Lightweight JavaScript framework Short and easy commands that enable deploying nodes with a single command line Works seamlessly with NPM packages Automates deployment and configuration of your Node applications with ease Allows plugins with extension libraries Easy version management Small learning curve Use cases of Serverless Framework Event processing Event-driven microservices Lambda microservices Automating development-related tasks
Zappa It lets you seamlessly build and deploy event-driven serverless Python-based applications to AWS Lambda. It works with almost any WSGI-compatible framework, including Pyramid, Bottle, or even Django. Moreover, when combined with Flask, Zappa is great for serverless hosting of complex web applications, image processing, text-processing, or number-crunching.
Zappa Unique features: Automating deployment and updating applications on AWS servers Seamless integration with other Python frameworks Integration with CI/CD system Default IAM (identity and access management) policies for security Support for rollbacks, scheduling, logs tailing, remote function invocation, SSL certificates for custom domains, etc. Allows setting environment variables such as remote AWS environment or local environment
Jets It is a serverless framework that allows you to easily create apps in Ruby and deploy them, seamlessly gluing together with AWS services. Thus, it features all the necessary tooling to deploy applications using AWS Lambda. You can build various architecture patterns with Jets, including web API applications, event-driven apps or IoT architecture, and more.
Jets Unique features: Focus on the dynamic language Ruby Extensive technical documentation with numerous examples More time for writing functional code Support for writing separate functions that you can use to join together different AWS resources and services
Architect It allows developers to define the serverless architecture concisely with low code, zero ceremonies, and clear and terse config. Thus, they can focus on just business logic. Moreover, you pay only for services while in use, on-demand, or it scales to zero.
Architect Unique features: Open-source and open governance Flexible Infrastructure as Code Allows local and offline development, testing, debugging, and previewing of code before deployment Secured (IAM roles) with least privilege access to only the resources defined Use cases of Serverless Framework Event-driven cloud applications Functional Web apps on AWS Ultra-scalable, database-backed web apps
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) AWS CDK is a software development framework where you define your cloud infrastructure using modern programming languages and deploy it using AWS CloudFormation. Thus, CDK is a good fit if you want to build serverless architectures on AWS using a language familiar to your developers.
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Unique features: Supports TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, and other programming languages Offers coverage across all AWS services and features Has a developer-friendly CLI Enables you to write runtime code and define AWS resources Allows you to design reusable components to cater to the organization’s security, compliance, and governance requirements and even easily share the components across the organization Allows you to embrace DevOps by involving more developers with IaC Integrates with continuous delivery pipelines using the AWS CDK CLI
Flogo It is an open-source ecosystem with event-driven capabilities that simplifies building resource-efficient and modern serverless applications. Written in Golang language, it provides a customized framework to easily create, deploy and manage apps on AWS Lambda using only Docker images.
Flogo Unique features: Ultra-light design that is 20 to 50 times lighter than Node.js or Java Provides a visual web UI to design applications with the efficiency of Golang The small-footprint design provides an ultra-fast way to make your code live Offers the flexibility to deploy apps in containers, as serverless functions, or static binaries on IoT edge devices
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