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Serverless Ops
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Serverless Ops

by Michael Hausenblas
November 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
61 pages
1h 4m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Preface

The dominant way we deployed and ran applications over the past decade was machine-centric. First, we provisioned physical machines and installed our software on them. Then, to address the low utilization and accelerate the roll-out process, came the age of virtualization. With the emergence of the public cloud, the offerings became more diverse: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), again machine-centric; Platform as a Service (PaaS), the first attempt to escape the machine-centric paradigm; and Software as a Service (SaaS), the so far (commercially) most successful offering, operating on a high level of abstraction but offering little control over what is going on.

Over the past couple of years we’ve also encountered some developments that changed the way we think about running applications and infrastructure as such: the microservices architecture, leading to small-scoped and loosely coupled distributed systems; and the world of containers, providing application-level dependency management in either on-premises or cloud environments.

With the advent of DevOps thinking in the form of Michael T. Nygard’s Release It! (Pragmatic Programmers) and the twelve-factor manifesto, we’ve witnessed the transition to immutable infrastructure and the need for organizations to encourage and enable developers and ops folks to work much more closely together, in an automated fashion and with mutual understanding of the motivations and incentives.

In 2016 we started to see the serverless ...

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ISBN: 9781492042914