4 Reasons to Use Kubernetes in the Serverless Era
4 Reasons to Use Kubernetes in the Serverless Era

Is serverless a replacement for Kubernetes?

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Serverless is cool and has taken the tech world by the storm. It is evolving quite a bit and growing at a tremendous pace. The reasons for its success are its developer-friendliness, ease of running microservices, and lower infrastructure overhead.

Serverless, or FaaS (Functions as a service), is a technology that helps you run code within dynamically managed abstracted servers. The cloud provider provides a provision to run your stateless event-triggered system without worrying about the underlying infra.

Some of the popular serverless offerings are AWS Lamba, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions.

Built for scalability, it allows multiple parallel invocations of your functions, and you pay for the number of executions instead of allocated resources.

Kubernetes, on the other hand, is an open-source, robust, widely used container orchestration platform that allows you to run your applications on the scale.

It is a hybrid between IaaS and PaaS and allows you to standardise your applications to run the same everywhere by using containers. Kubernetes runs on servers, and you or the cloud platform manage the underlying infrastructure. Therefore, there is some infrastructure administration overhead.

That makes serverless a great proposition. It solves a variety of problems that we never thought about before, and it has its use cases and customer base. But before you think that this is going to change everything in IT, think again. It is not a one-size-fits-all technology. Kubernetes, for its part, looks promising in its ability to cover almost everything. Let’s find out how.
['Gaurav Agarwal']
['Technology', 'DevOps', 'Programming', 'Kubernetes', 'Serverless']