This can make it a bit easier to estimate costs. When you are done developing a feature and want to deploy to production, you can do so by using DigitalOcean App Platform control panel.Īs mentioned, DigitalOcean Functions has a simplified pricing model that does not include requests or invocations as part of the model. This is how you can list all of your development functions and invoke the sample/hello function for given arguments, for example: doctl serverless functions listĭoctl serverless functions invoke sample/hello -p name:sammy -p age:10ĭoctl is also able to watch your project directory and automatically re-deploy it when necessary using the watch command. doctl allows you to create a function on your local machine and deploy it to the cloud. To make it easier for developers to use it, DigitalOcean Functions includes a developer console and can be used through DigitalOcean doctl command line tool.

On the heels of the acquisition of serverless computing platform Nimbella, DigitalOcean announced a new offering called DigitalOcean Functions based on Nimbella's technology and aimed to provide a developer-friendly and cost-competitive serverless platform.Īccording to DigitalOcean VP of serverless and former Nimbella CEO Anshu Agarwal, 'access to serverless computing has been one of the most popular requests from DigitalOcean users who want to spend less time managing their infrastructure and more time building impactful applications'.ĭigitalOcean Functions attempts to differentiate from competitors on three accounts: ease of use, pricing predictability, and integration between serverless and server-based services.

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