The Serverless Landscape

Welcome to the first chapter of Kubernetes for Serverless Applications. In this chapter, we are going to be looking at and discussing the following:

• What do we mean by serverless and Functions as a Service?
• What services are out there?
• An example of Lambda by Amazon Web Services
• An example of Azure Functions
• Using the serverless toolkit
• What problems can we solve using serverless and Functions as a Service?

I think it is important we start by addressing the elephant in the room, and that is the term serverless.