Docker for Serverless Applications

Serverless and Docker

When talking about containers, most of us already know how to pack an application into a container as a deployment unit. Docker allows us to deploy applications in its de facto standard format to virtually everywhere, ranging from our laptop, a QA cluster, a customer site, or a public cloud, as shown in the following diagram:

Figure 1.1: Deploying a Docker container to various infrastructures and platforms

Running Docker containers on public clouds is considered normal these days. We have already gained benefits such as starting cloud instances on demand with pay-as-you-go billing. Without the need to wait for hardware ...