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Building Serverless Applications with Python
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Building Serverless Applications with Python

by Jalem Raj Rohit
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
272 pages
4h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Functions as containers

For understanding the concept of functions being executed as/inside containers, we need to properly understand the concept of containers. To cite the definition of a container from the Docker documentation (https://www.docker.com/what-docker):

A container image is a lightweight, stand-alone, executable package of a piece of software that includes everything needed to run it: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries, settings.

What is available for both Linux and Windows based applications; containerized software will always run the same, regardless of the environment.

Containers isolate software from its surroundings (for example, differences between development and staging environments) and help reduce conflicts ...

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