Code Engine and Containers

IBM Cloud provides multiple ways to run containerised and serverless workloads. This lesson covers IBM Cloud Code Engine (serverless), Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, and IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service.

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IBM Cloud Code Engine

Code Engine is a fully managed serverless platform that runs containers, batch jobs, and functions — without managing any infrastructure. It is IBM Cloud's primary serverless compute offering.

What Code Engine Runs

Workload Type	Description
Applications	HTTP-driven workloads that scale to zero when idle
Jobs	Batch workloads that run to completion
Functions	Short-lived, event-driven code (similar to AWS Lambda)

Key Features

• Scale to zero — pay nothing when your app receives no traffic
• Automatic scaling — scales up to handle traffic spikes
• Source-to-container — deploy directly from a Git repository or source code
• No infrastructure — no clusters, nodes, or networking to manage
• Built on Knative and Kubernetes — but fully abstracted away

How It Works