Cloud-Native Deployment with Jina

Jina is a framework that enables you to build multi-modal and cross-modal applications and deploy them on the cloud!

Shubham Saboo
Jina AI
2 min readJun 22, 2022

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Jina lets you uplift your PoC into a production-ready service and handles the infrastructure complexity, making advanced solution engineering and cloud-native technologies accessible to every developer. Check out the documentation to learn more about Jina and its capabilities.

Going Serverless with Jina

Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on-demand, taking care of the servers on behalf of their customers.

Why should you care?

  • Not only does scale-to-0 save costs when you’re first starting to host your app, but it also allows you to easily scale up or down as your needs change. This makes it a very versatile and cost-effective option for many businesses.
  • Many use cases in Jina don’t need Executors or Gateway to be always alive. They only require them to be alive for a limited amount of time.
  • Event-driven invocations are a key benefit of using a serverless architecture. This allows your application to scale more easily and respond to events in real-time.

To know more about Jina and Serverless, check out the detailed blog post by Deepankar Mahapatro, Engineering Manager at Jina AI.

Debugging Executors and Flow with Linkerd

Executor and Flow are the building blocks of any Jina application that acts as the core components for providing wider functionalities. Debugging Executor and Flow is one of the most time-consuming tasks for teams serving Jina applications in production.

👉 Linkerd service mesh to the rescue!!

What is a Service Mesh?

A service mesh is a tool for adding observability, security, and reliability features to cloud-native applications by transparently inserting this functionality at the platform layer rather than the application layer.

Among the different service meshes out there, Linkerd is known for its ease of use and simple design pattern. It allows you to track basic requests with no additional configuration and getting started is as simple as annotating the K8S deployment.

To know more about how Linkerd integrates with Jina, check out the detailed blog post by Deepankar Mahapatro, Engineering Manager at Jina AI.

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