Rethinking Serverless Containers

The pain of writing serverless functions, paying for resources that are not In use, and runtime unavailability can be a developer’s nightmare. With Serverless containers, You can run any programming language of your choice, pay for resources used, and focus on the business logic of your app.

Serverless Containers are the game changers we have been waiting for. So come and join me in this talk as I demystify Serverless Containers.

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1. Rethinking
   Serverless
   Containers
   

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2. Hey! I’m Obinna Odirionye.
   - Kubernetes Engineer, Kubermatic.
   - Member and Maintainer, CNCF Helm ChartMuseum.
   - Minimalist
   @odirionyeo
   

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3. Open Source
   Festival 2022
   What is Serverless
   “Serverless doesn't mean there’s no servers, it means we think
   about Servers less”
   Scott Hanselman tweet:
   

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4. What Serverless Offers
   ● Pay for what you use - Compute
   ● No server management is required
   ● Inherently Scalable
   ● Quick and Fast deployments
   It’s Goodness!
   

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5. Cons of Serverless
   ● Not built for long running processes - It’s gets better
   ● Performance issue
   ● Vendor lock-in is a Risk
   ● Hard to debug
   Ugh! Bad side
   

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6. Serverless started as
   just functions!
   

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7. Open Source
   Festival 2022
   Serverless Functions
   Make a twitter Bot, Build a RESTful API endpoints, Make an S3 file
   replicator and many more…
   Examples
   

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8. Serverless functions
   ● Limited Runtime Availability
   ● Heavily decoupled
   ● Vendor Lock-in
   The bad parts
   

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9. OMW!
   So Much Problems.
   Argh!
   

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10. “The Birth of Serverless Containers”
    

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11. Open Source
    Festival 2022
    Serverless Containers
    “Serverless has evolved beyond FAAS and functions are an
    implementation detail.”
    Kelsey Hightower tweet:
    

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12. Serverless Containers
    In August 15, 2018, Google Cloud
    released Cloud Run - Alpha Release.
    The goal was to bring the best parts of
    Serverless and Containers together.
    The cons of serverless functions were
    solved in Serverless Containers.
    

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13. Serverless Containers
    ● Openness to business Logic
    ● Split Traffic. Canary Deployment!
    ● No Vendor Lock-in
    ● OMG! No, You don’t need to know Kubernetes!
    ● Bring your own runtime, Use any language of your choice
    The Good Parts
    

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14. So much Talk!
    Let’s Invoke The Demo Gods
    [Link: https://github.com/nerdeveloper/nodejs-azure-container-app]
    

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15. Open Source
    Festival 2022
    The Future of Serverless
    “We need to adopt Serverless Containers as the benefits are
    enormous. We are not there yet but on the way. Rethinking the way
    we deploy apps with Serverless is happening and we just
    scratched the surface.”
    

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16. Thank
    you! Obinna Odirionye
    Kubermatic
    @odirionyeo
    

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