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Serverless computing - Kubernetes Tutorial

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Serverless computing

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- In this video we'll talk about serverless computing. The term serverless indicates to developers that they just have to provide the code and don't worry about anything that is related to infrastructure. And behind serverless computing, there is a reality of networks and storage and more of the traditional computing components that need to be defined in the cloud, because even if you're running in a cloud, there's always some physical machines taking care of your applications. And also, data centers are used to host these physical servers. Related to serverless computing, there is FaaS. FaaS is function as a service, and that is how cloud providers typically are offering serverless computing. In FaaS, the software developer just has to deliver a package in the right format to run that application in the cloud. So these packaging formats are becoming pretty important. Container images are the common formats to do so, and Knative is the Kubernetes add-on for serverless computing…

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