About buildpacks for OpenShift Serverless Functions

Buildpacks for OpenShift Serverless Functions is a Developer Preview feature only. OpenShift Serverless - Developer Preview releases contain features and functionalities that might not be fully tested. Customers are encouraged to provide feedback on Developer Preview releases. Developer Preview releases are not production-ready, and customers are recommended to avoid using the project for production or business-critical workloads.

To improve the process of deployment of your application code, you can use OpenShift Serverless to deploy stateless, event-driven functions as a Knative service on OpenShift Container Platform. If you want to develop functions, you must complete the set up steps.

Function lifecycle management includes creating, building, and deploying a function. Optionally, you can also test a deployed function by invoking it. You can do all of these operations on OpenShift Serverless using the kn func tool.

Some parts of OpenShift Serverless Functions are in Developer Preview and are documented in the following pages: