update homepage and overview (#773)

Author: berndtj

docs/_front/overview.md

@@ -11,20 +11,9 @@ Building, deploying and administering serverless applications requires more than
 Dispatch brings features and services together to easily manage production-caliber applications and services which are
 built upon functions.
 
-## A flexible FaaS
+## Features
 
-Dispatch itself is not a function scheduler and executor.  Since there are several open source FaaS implementations, the
-Dispatch team decided two things early on.  First, we would not create yet another open source FaaS.  Second, the space
-is too young and immature to predict with any certainty that one FaaS would be the dominant player over others.
-
-Instead, Dispatch abstracts the FaaS implementation via a driver interface allowing integration with one or more
-existing or future FaaS implementations. The initial Dispatch release includes drivers for OpenFaaS and Riff.  Future
-drivers could include support for additional FaaS implementations, including public cloud offerings such as AWS Lambda.
-The flexibility to integrate multiple FaaS implementations is more than just future proofing, it also opens the door to
-interesting scenarios where the same function can be executed on one or more different environments based on criteria
-such as locality, compute resources (GPU) or burst scaling onto the public cloud.
-
-## A secure FaaS
+### A secure FaaS
 
 Giving developers direct access to VMs and containers can be problematic.  IT can quickly lose control over the
 production environment, with no knowledge of what software is actually running in their data center.  On the other hand,
@@ -35,26 +24,48 @@ the actual function code can be managed and inspected.  Pivotal Container Servic
 and up-to-date Kubernetes service. Dispatch manages function runtimes and artifacts (containers) built on the latest
 Photon OS.
 
-## A multi-tenant FaaS
+### A multi-tenant FaaS
 
 Dispatch is designed to work in a multi-user and multi-organization environment.  Dispatch will integrate with existing
 Oauth2 compatible identity providers such as github or Active Directory.  Administrators will be able to create roles
 and permissions to ensure tight access control around the full Dispatch API.
 
-## A proper API gateway
+### An integrated API gateway
 
 Whether building a simple web-hook or a richer web-service in order to trigger the functions that make up a deployment,
-an API gateway is required.  The API gateway provides routing and security.  Dispatch integrates the open source Kong
-API gateway to provide a production quality solution for applications built on Dispatch.  Simply define a route and bind
+an API gateway is required.  The API gateway provides routing and security.  Dispatch integrates an
+API gateway to provide a solution for applications built on Dispatch.  Simply define a route and bind
 it to a function to create a secure HTTPS endpoint.
 
-## Plays well with others
+### Plays well with others
 
 Integration with external services and events is critical for any serverless solution.  Dispatch includes an external
 services interface that allows extending Dispatch to work with just about any other service.  These services could be
-databases to provide state to applications, or event sources which provide triggers to functions.  Included in the
-preview release is a vCenter driver which ingests vCenter events which functions can now subscribe to.  The interface is
-flexible and extensible.
+databases to provide state to applications, or event sources which provide triggers to functions.  The interface is flexible and extensible.
+
+## Versions
+
+The Dispatch project consists of two versions or branches:
+
+* [Dispatch-Solo](#dispatch-solo) (solo branch) - Minimal dependencies and convenient packaging for evaluation
+* [Dispatch-Knative](#dispatch-knative) (master branch) - Production ready, built upon Kubernetes and Knative
+
+## Dispatch-Solo
+
+Dispatch-Solo is a branch of Dispatch which is intended to offer the full functionality and user experience of Dispatch
+while requiring very few dependencies.  Additionally, Dispatch-Solo is packaged as a VM appliance making it as easy as
+possible to get a functioning Dispatch environment in seconds.
+
+There are of course limitations:
+* Scale - Dispatch-Solo is a single binary and not designed to scale beyond that.
+* IAM/Tenancy - Dispatch-Solo is intended to be single-user.
+* Services - Dispatch relies on the Kubernetes service catalog to bring services integration.  Dispatch-Solo does not include Kubernetes and therefore the service catalog.
+* Persistence - Dispatch-Solo relies on a simple embeded database (BoltDB)
+
+## Dispatch-Knative
+
+Dispatch-Knative is the long-term production version of Dispatch. This version of Dispatch is dependent on Kubernetes
+and [Knative](https://knative.dev).  It is currently under heavy development.
 
 ## Join the Dispatch team
 

docs/_layouts/home.html

@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
                                 <div class="disatpch-bg-img" id="bgimg"></div>
                                 {{ content }}
                                 <div class="home-hero-btn">
-                                    <a class="btn btn-primary" routerlink="get-started" href="{{ site.url | relative_url }}/documentation/front/quickstart">Get Started</a>
-                                    <a class="btn btn-secondary btn-outline" routerlink="documentation" href="{{ site.url | relative_url }}/documentation/front/overview">Documentation</a>
-                                    <a class="btn btn-secondary btn-outline" href="https://github.com/vmware/dispatch/tree/solo">GitHub</a>
+                                    <a class="btn btn-primary" routerlink="get-started" href="{{ site.baseurl }}/documentation/front/quickstart">Get Started</a>
+                                    <a class="btn btn-secondary btn-outline" routerlink="documentation" href="{{ site.baseurl }}/documentation/front/overview">Documentation</a>
+                                    <a class="btn btn-secondary btn-outline" href="https://github.com/vmware/dispatch/tree/solo">GitHub (Solo Branch)</a>
                                 </div>
                             </div>
                         </section>

docs/index.md

@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@
 layout: home
 cards:
   - icon: code
-    title: Flexible Faas
+    title: Polyglot
     text: |
-        Write one function to execute on multiple FaaS including
-        <a href="https://www.openfaas.com">OpenFaaS</a> and
-        <a href="https://projectriff.io">Riff</a>.
+        Write functions in the language of your choice.  Dispatch currently supports
+        Python, NodeJS, Java, Powershell and Clojure.
   - icon: administrator
     title: Multi-User IAM
     text: |
@@ -18,11 +17,10 @@ cards:
         Integrate easily with external services and event sources via a
         flexible event driver interface.
   - icon: cloud-traffic
-    title: Production API Gateway
+    title: Integrated API Gateway
     text: |
-        Dispatch leverages the open source
-        <a href="https://getkong.org">KONG API Gateway</a> to provide
-        a secure and configurable API service.
+        Dispatch includes an API Gateway to securely and conveniently expose your functions
+        externally.
 ---
 
 # Dispatch Functions Framework