Presentation covering the serverless landscape with Docker. Serverless Benefits, Challenges, and current Docker Serverless projects.

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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

5. Credit: @benorama

6. Future == Serverless

7. Serverless is made of Servers!

8. Monolithic
Application
Microservice
Monolithic vs Microservice vs FaaS
Function
Function
Function
Function
Function
Function
Function
Function
Microservice
Microservice

9. Docker + Serverless =

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

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Benefits & Challenges

12. Disruptively Lower Cost
Time to Market
Scalability
Benefits

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

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Serverless
Use Cases

15. Docker Voting App

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

19. Serverless Use Case

20. 2
0
Serverless
Demo

21. 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

22. Let’s have a
look:
DEMO

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

24. Thank you
Brian Christner / Swisscom
@idomyowntricks