Nuclio

Spec sheet

Purpose

Nuclio is an open-source and managed serverless platform for automating the deployment of data-science applications.Read 11 Oct 2026 · nuclio.io

Intended users

The documentation describes Nuclio as designed for data-, I/O-, and compute-intensive workloads and says it is integrated with tools including Jupyter and Kubeflow.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nuclio.io

Deployment

Nuclio can run as a standalone Docker container or on a Kubernetes cluster.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nuclio.io

Security

Nuclio supports function authentication on Kubernetes deployments, but it is disabled by default unless enabled in platform configuration.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nuclio.io

Support

The documentation directs users to the Nuclio Slack workspace for support and additional product information.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nuclio.io

API Gateway limit

The Nuclio API Gateway feature is available only for Kubernetes-based deployments.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nuclio.io

Dashboard

Nuclio includes a management dashboard and basic monitoring and logging.Read 11 Oct 2026 · nuclio.io

Developer tools

Nuclio integrates with data-science tools including Jupyter and Kubeflow, and its Jupyter project provides a Python package and SDK for deploying functions from notebooks.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nuclio.io

Event sources

The documentation lists triggers for Cron, Azure Event Hub, HTTP, Kafka, Kinesis, MQTT, NATS, NATS JetStream, RabbitMQ, and v3ioStream.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nuclio.io

GPU support

Nuclio supports function execution on CPUs and GPUs.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nuclio.io

Included capabilities

The homepage lists Kubernetes support, a management dashboard, multi-tenancy, and basic monitoring and logging.Read 11 Oct 2026 · nuclio.io

Jupyter

Nuclio can build and deploy functions from Jupyter notebooks.Read 11 Oct 2026 · nuclio.io

Kafka processing

Nuclio's Kafka trigger uses Kafka consumer groups to distribute stream messages among function replicas.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nuclio.io

Limit

The Kinesis trigger is marked as being in technical preview.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nuclio.io

Performance

The homepage says Nuclio can run up to 400,000 function invocations per second.Read 11 Oct 2026 · nuclio.io

Portability

The maker describes Nuclio as portable across laptops, edge devices, on-premises environments, and multiple clouds.Read 11 Oct 2026 · nuclio.io

Project history

Nuclio documentation says the project began in 2017.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nuclio.io

Security deployment note

The production guide says the default Helm deployment does not authenticate the Dashboard API or mask trigger credentials at rest, and recommends hardening these controls before exposing the Dashboard on an untrusted network.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nuclio.io

Technical preview

The MQTT trigger is marked as being in technical preview.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nuclio.io

Triggers

Documented trigger types include HTTP, cron, Azure Event Hub, Kafka, Kinesis, MQTT, NATS, NATS JetStream, RabbitMQ, and v3ioStream.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.nuclio.io

Use cases

The maker lists real-time analytics and AI, data transformation and movement, APIs and application backends, and IoT gateways as use cases.Read 11 Oct 2026 · nuclio.io

Where Specifiction places it

• Serverless Platforms#13 of 287.6