Server-less Computing in Public Cloud or Containers
Ripunjaya Rawat
Associate Director-Enterprise Architect- Financial Services -Digital Transformation | Cloud| DC
Server-less or Container ?
Server-less computing (Lembda in AWS, Azure functions , Google cloud function) are more cost effective compare to containerisation (like docker) since it will charged by public cloud provider only for the period code will run , So no dedicated container infrastructure is required, moreover there is no need for the Kubernetes cluster/SWARN or docker file administration , auto scaling will also taken care by the public cloud provider.
Shall we start considering server-less computing and recommend micro services applications to move from containers (docker) to server-less computing in public cloud?
Cost of API, Storage, Database is going to remain same in both the cases.
Eventually server-less computing is also using containers in back ground!!!
Any thought!
Enterprise AWS and Azure Architect at IBM
4 年To add to Vishal’s comment use serverless services like Lamba etc only for dev / test environment as it spins down and when it comes up it takes time which we don’t want for prod environment. Vishal is right use PAAS container services .
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4 年Hi Ripun, interesting question, as rightly mentioned by you "serverless first" is a good option if the code doesnt need to run for a longer time as serverless tech. like lambda have a limitation to abort job after a fixed interval(generally 15 min.) and may not be prefered where code needs to run longer. This is one of the use case. There are few other cases where containers will fit better. Happy to connect with you @coffee time..:)
Senior Security Consultant at Google
4 年Eventually it comes to stateless vs Statefull applications. While the former prefers serverless, the latter containers. They both exist together in a hybrid architecture.
Hybrid Cloud Data Platform ML & AI Services WatsonX Advocate
4 年All depends how the app is coded. Secondly the code to which industry it belongs to. Both has their own use cases.