Deploy to Alibaba Cloud Function Compute
Alibaba Cloud Serverless is one of the first teams in China to provide serverless computing services. It relies on Alibaba Cloud's powerful cloud infrastructure service capabilities to continuously achieve technological breakthroughs. At present, Taobao, Alipay, DingTalk, AutoNavi, etc. have applied Serverless to production business. Serverless products on the cloud have been successfully implemented in tens of thousands of companies such as Pumpkin Movie, NetEase Cloud Music, iQiyi Sports, and Lilith.
Alibaba Cloud Serverless includes many products, such as Function Compute FC, Lightweight Application Engine SAE, etc. This article mainly uses its Function Compute part.
The following are common methods of using, testing, and deploying function triggers.
Deployment type
Alibaba Cloud has many types of function computing deployments, including the following types according to the different containers they run.
Name | Functional limitations | Description | Deployment Media |
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Built-in runtime | Streaming requests and responses are not supported; requests and responses that are too large are not supported. | Only function interfaces can be deployed, no custom ports are required, zip packages are built for platform deployment | zip package deployment |
Custom Runtime | You can deploy standard applications, start port 9000, use the system image provided by the platform, and build a zip package for platform deployment | zip package deployment | |
Custom Container | You can deploy standard applications, start port 9000, control all environmental dependencies yourself, and build a Dockerfile for platform deployment | Dockerfile deployment |
There are three ways to create functions on the platform.