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Understand serverless containers

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Understand serverless containers

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- [Instructor] Lately there's been buzz about this term, serverless containers. What does it mean? And how does this apply to serverless architecture? Well, first, let's look at a diagram which helps us to understand how compute actually runs on the cloud. So, there's four different levels here. at the top level, we have functions, which we've been looking at through this course. And functions have a 1:n relationship to docker container instances, as is shown here. So, we have six functions that are mapped to three different containers. And again, how you decide how to do that is really beyond the scope of this course, and it's something that you do need to dig into after you build your POCs and start moving to production scale workloads, so it's a homework, if you will. Underneath the hood there you have an orchestrator for these groups of containers. And the cloud vendors usually are using either Kubernetes or…

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