Building and Running Your Own Serverless Apps on Jenkins X

I previously wrote about serverless apps (web apps, specifically) hosted on AWS Lambda versus Knative. Just to rehash in terms so simple, it is kind of embarrassing: A serverless web app is a web app that scales down to zero when no one is using it (i.e. you only pay for what you use).

In this post, I want to show you how, in a few commands, you can get this running with Jenkins X on Google Compute. The benefit is that you can boast to all your friends that you know serverless and they don't. This will be powered by Knative and something called Gloo under the covers (you don't need to know the details, but I will provide some links later).