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Docker & Serverless Brian Christner / Swisscom

@idomyowntricks

2Brian ChristnerBrian.Christner@swisscom.com / @idomyowntricks

● Swisscom Cloud Architect

● Background in Engineering, Cloud & Containers

● Docker Captain

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History of Serverless Benefits & Challenges Use Cases Demo

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Data Centers

IaaSPaaS

Containers

Serverless

A Brief Serverless History

~2000 2006 2007 2013 2015

Credit: @benorama

Future == Serverless

Serverless is made of Servers!

Monolithic Application

Microservice

Monolithic vs Microservice vs FaaS

Function

Function

Function

Function

Function

Function

Function

Function

Microservice

Microservice

Docker + Serverless =

Docker faas – Alex Ellis

IronFunctions – Iron.io

Docker Lambda

Funker – Bret Fisher Docker

Docker Serverless Projects

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Benefits & Challenges

Disruptively Lower Cost

Time to Market

Scalability

Benefits

Vendor Lock-in / No Standards

Persistent Storage

Tooling

Complexity

Challenges

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Use Cases

Docker Voting App

It’s Serverless

Database

Entry PointEntry Point

Vote HandlingHTTP Request

Process Vote

Handle ResultHTTP Request

Serverless Voting App

Serverless Use Case

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Demo

Created by Docker Captain Alex Ellis

FaaS is a framework for building Serverless functions on Docker Swarm

Any UNIX process can be packaged as a function

Community Input Make it easy to deploy (Kelsey Hightower)

Serverless Demo: Docker faas

Let’s have a look:

DEMO

Useful Links

Martin Fowler - https://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html

FaaS – www.github.com/allexellis/faas

https://veggiemonk.github.io/awesome-docker/

Thank you

Brian Christner / Swisscom@idomyowntricks