1. Introduction to Serverless

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Identify the benefits of serverless architectures
• Create and invoke simple functions on a serverless platform
• Create a cloud-native serverless function and package it as a container using Kubernetes
• Create a Twitter Bot Backend application and package it in a Docker container

In this chapter, we will explain the serverless architecture, then create our first serverless function and package it as a container.