Workloads
Publish date: Sep 7, 2020
Last updated: Sep 18, 2020
Last updated: Sep 18, 2020
Container
A Container is a workload that runs OCI containers: Docker, containerd, CRI-O.
Functions
Functions as in Function as a Service is an event driven model that allows execution of discreet modular code in a serverless computing environment. A few examples of the more commonly deployed Function as a Service (FaaS) platforms include Knative, OpenFaaS and AWS Firecracker.
VM
A virtual machine is a workload that operates on top of a hypervisor and contains its own virtualized hardware stack comprising of network adapters, storage, RAM, CPU with applications, binaries, and libraries.