From the course: DevOps Foundations: Containers
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Serverless
From the course: DevOps Foundations: Containers
Serverless
- [Instructor] Serverless computing is one of the more interesting developments to come out of the industry shifting toward containers. But how can a cloud service be serverless? The simplest definition of serverless computing is to think of it as a service for running code instead of a service for running machines or containers that run code. Traditional cloud computing platforms tend to focus more on providing a VM or container, whereas serverless seeks to abstract that away from the user and just focus on the code itself. Of course, the code has to run somewhere, so cloud providers use containers to power their serverless offerings. To understand how serverless works and the possible benefits. Let's start by looking at a traditional web server. Let's assume that we have a server that's running a dynamic application, so this isn't just serving up static files. Each of these shapes represents a different endpoint within our application. For example, if this were a social media site…
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