In the Fog: Application Deployment for the Cloud Continuum

Abstract

Serverless and the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) paradigms are seen as two enabling technologies for next-generation computing on the cloud continuum. This article discusses prominent frameworks to deploy and monitor applications that span the cloud continuum. It discusses associated challenges and proposes a novel architecture for a framework that manages intelligently multi-cloud, fog and edge resources in order to cope with the requirements of FaaS-enabled applications and services.