Serverless for Containers
Discover how serverless computing applies to containers with services like AWS Fargate and Azure Container Instances. Learn the benefits of automatic scaling, trade-offs in control and pricing, and the evolving options for deploying containerized Rails applications without managing infrastructure.
Serverless computing
Much fuss has been made about the name serverless computing, but putting that aside, there is a growing demand for ever-more-abstracted services.
Popularized by services like Amazon’s AWS Lambda, serverless computing has become synonymous with Functions as a Service (FaaS). You supply some code to be run when a particular event occurs, and the platform takes care of how and where it is run.
Although the code you supply is typically turned into containers behind the scenes, that is an implementation detail you do not need to care about.
Benefit of this computing model
The benefit of this computing model is that you completely remove the need to provision ...