Few days ago I started to work on Qinling implementation in our OpenStack platforms and this Medium story (which is my first) is about it. But before going further, let’s have a quick overview of what Qinling is and what it does. Qinling is an OpenStack project to provide “Function as a Service”. This project aims to provide a platform to support serverless functions (like AWS Lambda). Qinling supports different container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes/Swarm, etc…) and different function package storage backends (local/Swift/S3) by nature using plugin mechanism. Basically it allows you to trigger a function only when you need it, this helps you to consume only the CPU and memory time that you really need without to configure any server. Which means at the end the billing should be lighter (everybody loves that). I will not going deeper in what Qinling is, there are many...