Vmware, Inc.

Ivan Mikushin

Mark Peek

Berndt Jung

Karol Stepniewski

Nicholas Tenczar

Xueyang Hu

Techniques for implementing curated image management in a Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) infrastructure are provided. In one set of embodiments, a service component of the FaaS infrastructure can maintain one or more curated software lists defined by one or more administrators of the FaaS infrastructure, where the one or more curated software lists identify software that has been approved for use on the FaaS infrastructure. The service component can further receive, from an application developer, a selection of software from the one or more curated software lists, generate a custom image that incorporates the received selection of software, and store the custom image in a repository of the FaaS infrastructure.

Curated image management in a FaaS infrastructure

Techniques for scheduling and executing functions across a plurality of different Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) infrastructures are provided. In one set of embodiments, a computer system can determine that a function has been invoked, where the computer system implements a spanning FaaS service platform that is communicatively coupled with the plurality of different FaaS infrastructures. In response, the computer system can retrieve metadata associated with the function, where the metadata includes criteria or policies indicating how the function should be scheduled for execution, and can retrieve information associated with each of the plurality of different FaaS infrastructures, where the information includes capabilities or characteristics of each FaaS infrastructure. The computer system can then select a FaaS infrastructure in the plurality of different FaaS infrastructures based on the retrieved metadata and the retrieved information and can schedule the function for execution on the selected FaaS infrastructure.

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