Tag Archives: Containers as a Service

Knative Functions – No Dockerfile, No Lock-In, No Kubernetes Experience

Would you like to run functions in your own Kubernetes clusters? Would you like it to be as simple as possible? How about providing Functions As a Service (FaaS) flavor of serverless computing to everyone in your company? If the answer to any of those questions is yes, you might want to explore Knative Functions.

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Azure Container Apps: Containers As A Service (CaaS) Flavor Of Serverless

Azure Container Apps is a fully managed Containers As a Service (CaaS) flavor of serverless computing from Azure.

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Serverless Computing With Knative And Containers As A Service (CaaS)

This text was taken from the book and a Udemy course The DevOps Toolkit: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints

All the commands from this article are in the [04-03-knative.sh](Gist with the commands: https://gist.github.com/dc4ba562328c1d088047884026371f1f) Gist.

Before we dive into the actual usage of Knative, let’s see which components we got and how they interact with each other. We’ll approach the subject by trying to figure out the flow of a request. It starts with a user.


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Google Cloud Run (GCR) vs Azure Container Instances (ACI) vs AWS ECS with Fargate

This text was taken from the book and a Udemy course The DevOps Toolkit: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints

Should we use managed Containers as a Service (CaaS)? That must be the most crucial question we should try to answer. Unfortunately, it is hard to provide a universal answer since the solutions differ significantly from one provider to another. Currently (July 2020), CaaS can be described as wild west with solutions ranging from amazing to useless.


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Using Docker To Deploy Applications To Azure Container Instances

This text was taken from the book and a Udemy course The DevOps Toolkit: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints

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Azure Container Instances are a way to deploy containers in the Cloud. Based on that, you might think that ACI is not much different from other Containers as a Service solutions. But it is. It does not have horizontal scaling, nor any other features often associated with schedulers like Kubernetes. It is limited to the ability to run a single container in isolation. It is very similar to using Docker, except that it is in Azure, and that it saves us from worrying about the infrastructure needed to run containers.

So, if Azure Container Instances are very similar to Docker, why not use docker instead of az CLI? Fortunately, folks at Docker asked themselves the same question and released Docker Desktop that supports ACI. It is available since version 2.3.3+.


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Discussing The “Real” Expectations For Serverless Computing

This text was taken from the book and a Udemy course The DevOps Toolkit: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints

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What do I expect from serverless or, for that matter, any type of deployment services?


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