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Serverless (Part 1 of 3)
Stephen King, vCORE DevOps Engineering Lead | June 23, 2020
As mid-sized and large-scale organizations continue to adopt a hybrid and multi-cloud strategy, Flexera’s State of the Cloud report projects that 93% of organizations will have compute footprints on-prem and with at least one cloud vendor by 2021.
Still, hybrid cloud deployments are only as valuable as the workloads deployed on them.
The three considerations to keep in mind when designing a successful hybrid cloud architecture are serverless, multi-cloud networking and monitoring. Today we’ll discuss serverless.
When building an application modernization or greenfield architecture, Function as a Service (FaaS) is an increasingly popular choice. Serverless functions are in the top 5 technologies IT decision-makers are currently using or planning to use, according to Flexera.
About 80% of organizations that run containers now run FaaS in production environments, a clear indication that serverless deployments are no longer a niche area for cloud-native consumers.
While a serverless strategy and architecture can be quite beneficial to technology departments, it does introduce unique challenges in building seamless delivery pipelines and avoiding vendor lock.
Common challenges include:
If you have Kubernetes running, you already have a platform which can support a cloud agnostic FaaS and will allow you to leverage the benefits of serverless operations to your application architecture.
vCORE’s approach, and where we have found success, is with Knative and OpenFaaS. These are just two solutions in the vendor-agnostic landscape, and both are open-source solutions that allow you to leverage your existing on-prem or cloud Kubernetes clusters.
Do you already have Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Elastic Kubernetes Service? No problem — Knative and OpenFaaS give you the freedom you the freedom to place your workloads where you want and uniquely solve a collection of challenges. Here’s a closer look at each:
If you are already working with Kubernetes and want to give serverless a spin — or if you are trying to implement a vendor agnostic serverless hosting environment — these solutions are excellent options to evaluate.
Organizations continue to expand multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud footprints while adopting containerization and serverless functions.
Adopting a vendor-neutral serverless technology stack simplifies your continuous delivery pipeline and helps lower your technical debt.
Building a single-delivery pipeline while simplifying the developer and deployment experience lowers training costs and the barrier of entry, while increasing adoption of serverless technologies.
In my next blog, I will discuss the challenges around multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud networking, along with some of the tools we have leveraged to solve them.
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Serverless (Part 1 of 3)
Stephen King, vCORE DevOps Engineering Lead | June 23, 2020
As mid-sized and large-scale organizations continue to adopt a hybrid and multi-cloud strategy, Flexera’s State of the Cloud report projects that 93% of organizations will have compute footprints on-prem and with at least one cloud vendor by 2021.
Still, hybrid cloud deployments are only as valuable as the workloads deployed on them.
The three considerations to keep in mind when designing a successful hybrid cloud architecture are serverless, multi-cloud networking and monitoring. Today we’ll take discuss serverless.
When building an application modernization or greenfield architecture, Function as a Service (FaaS) is an increasingly popular choice. Serverless functions are in the top 5 technologies IT decision-makers are currently using or planning to use, according to Flexera.
About 80% of organizations that run containers now run FaaS in production environments, a clear indication that serverless deployments are no longer a niche area for cloud-native consumers.
While a serverless strategy and architecture can be quite beneficial to technology departments, it does introduce unique challenges in building seamless delivery pipelines and avoiding vendor lock.
Common challenges include:
If you have Kubernetes running, you already have a platform which can support a cloud agnostic FaaS and will allow you to leverage the benefits of serverless operations to your application architecture.
vCORE’s approach, and where we have found success, is with Knative and OpenFaaS. These are just two solutions in the vendor-agnostic landscape, and both are open-source solutions that allow you to leverage your existing on-prem or cloud Kubernetes clusters.
Do you already have Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Elastic Kubernetes Service? No problem — Knative and OpenFaaS give you the freedom you the freedom to place your workloads where you want and uniquely solve a collection of challenges. Here’s a closer look at each:
If you are already working with Kubernetes and want to give serverless a spin — or if you are trying to implement a vendor agnostic serverless hosting environment — these solutions are excellent options to evaluate.
Organizations continue to expand multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud footprints while adopting containerization and serverless functions.
Adopting a vendor-neutral serverless technology stack simplifies your continuous delivery pipeline and helps lower your technical debt.
Building a single-delivery pipeline while simplifying the developer and deployment experience lowers training costs and the barrier of entry, while increasing adoption of serverless technologies.
In my next blog, I will discuss the challenges around multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud networking, along with some of the tools we have leveraged to solve them.
2020: Cloudy with a Chance of DevOps
Accelerate with Cloud Automation
Business Re-Imagined: 3 Powerful Technology Trends to Watch in 2020
Five Questions with vCORE Cloud Technical Director Brent Piatti
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