Serverless for Containers
Much fuss has been made about the name serverless computing,[94][95][96] but putting that aside, there’s a growing demand for ever-more-abstracted services.
Popularized by services like Amazon’s AWS Lambda,[97] Serverless Computing has become synonymous with Functions as a Service (FAAS). You supply some code to be run when a particular event occurs, and the platform takes care of how and where it’s run. Although the code you supply is typically turned into containers behind the scenes, that’s an implementation detail you don’t need to care about. The benefit to this computing model is that you completely remove the need to provision infrastructure, and scaling happens automatically based on load.
However, a major ...
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