Other Kubernetes serverless frameworks

AWS Lambda functions made serverless functions in the cloud very popular. Kubernetes is not a fully-fledged serverless function primitive, but it gets pretty close with the Job and CronJob resources. In addition to this, a plethora of serverless function solutions were developed by the community (Nuclio being one of them). Here are some of the more popular and mature options that we will see in the following subsections:

• Kubernetes Jobs and CronJobs
• KNative
• Fission
• Kubeless
• OpenFaas

Kubernetes Jobs and CronJobs

Kubernetes deployments and services are all about creating a set of long-running pods that are supposed to run indefinitely. A Kubernetes Job is all about running one or more...