Comment by kentonv

12 hours ago

This is 100% open source and self-hostable.

https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os

It runs on top of our open source runtime.

https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd

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yewenjie  11 hours ago

Does workerd have full feature-parity with Workers, including stuff like Durable Objects?

  • kentonv  11 hours ago

    It's the same code. The only thing it doesn't include is the global scheduling and orchestration, but you don't actually want that locally. (And honestly... that stuff is a bit of a beast.)

    Durable Objects are fully supported by workerd (and Cloudflare OS uses them extensively).

    There is, however, one catch currently: Durable Objects don't scale out well without the global scheduling. For running Cloudflare OS for one user, this is actually no big deal, but a company-wide instance might not work well.

    But I'm actually fixing that:

    https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/pull/6780

    Unfortunately didn't get enough time to land it before this release, but it'll come soon.

    With that I would expect a self-hosted Cloudflare OS on your own cluster to work quite well.

    • AgentME  2 hours ago

      This is exciting! I've loved the idea of Durable Objects but I've disliked that there's no existing way to use them while scaling to multiple machines outside of Cloudflare.

vavos  10 hours ago

It's cool that it's open-source, but how much effort and scale would it take to run it on non cloud flare infra?

  • tstrimple  4 hours ago

    ffs there is literally no pleasing some people. "Hosting an open source project is too difficult! They should provide a free SaaS solution instead on their own cost but also no lock-in!!"

    • tyre  1 hour ago

      I think it’s a legitimate question! Some companies operate at such a scale that if you tried to adopt their tools or services, it would be way too complex for the ROI.

      Think Bazel or how K8s was for ~ever. For Google’s scale? Required. For a small team? A net-negative.

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    • Rapzid  2 hours ago

      High switching costs is a form of lock-in "open source" or not.. This is something people with real experience making real decisions are well aware of..