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Docker & Serverless
Brian Christner / Swisscom
@idomyowntricks

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Brian Christner
Brian.Christner@swisscom.com / @idomyowntricks
● Swisscom Cloud Architect
● Background in Engineering, Cloud & Containers
● Docker Captain

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Agenda
History of Serverless
Benefits & Challenges
Use Cases
Demo

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Data
Centers
IaaS
PaaS
Containers
Serverless
A Brief Serverless History
~2000 2006 2007 2013 2015

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Credit: @benorama

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Future == Serverless

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Serverless is made of Servers!

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Monolithic
Application
Microservice
Monolithic vs Microservice vs FaaS
Function
Function
Function
Function
Function
Function
Function
Function
Microservice
Microservice

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Docker + Serverless =

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Docker faas – Alex Ellis
IronFunctions – Iron.io
Docker Lambda
Funker – Bret Fisher Docker
Docker Serverless Projects

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Benefits & Challenges

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Disruptively Lower Cost
Time to Market
Scalability
Benefits

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Vendor Lock-in / No Standards
Persistent Storage
Tooling
Complexity
Challenges

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Serverless
Use Cases

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Docker Voting App

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Database
Entry
Point
Entry Point
Vote Handling
HTTP Request
Process
Vote
Handle Result
HTTP Request
Serverless Voting App

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Serverless Use Case

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Serverless
Demo

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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

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Let’s have a
look:
DEMO

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Useful Links
Martin Fowler - https://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html
FaaS – www.github.com/allexellis/faas
https://veggiemonk.github.io/awesome-docker/

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Thank you
Brian Christner / Swisscom
@idomyowntricks