The Serverless Framework is an application development framework and tool for the serverless computing paradigm. The framework only shares the same name with serverless. Please do not be confused.
The authors of the Serverless Framework consider that a serverless application is the next evolution of application development in the cloud native ecosystem. And this kind of application needs a certain level of automation. This idea was the stem of the framework.
The design idea views managed services and functions as coupled entities. To make an application around them, a tool should provide build, test, and deploy commands to make the whole development life cycle fully automated.
There also should be a consistent way of building, testing, and deploying a serverless application to multiple cloud providers, while minimizing code changes. The framework should help configure the setting for each cloud provider based on the following:
- The language runtime
- The cloud provider selected...