code-engine.md

copyright	lastupdated	keywords	subcollection
years 2024	2024-04-19	events, serverless, whisk, code engine	cloud-object-storage

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Using {{site.data.keyword.codeenginefull_notm}}

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{{site.data.keyword.codeengineshort}} is a fully managed, serverless platform that runs your containerized workloads, including web apps, micro-services, event-driven functions, or batch jobs. {{site.data.keyword.codeengineshort}} even builds container images for you from your source code. All these workloads can seamlessly work together because they are all hosted within the same Kubernetes infrastructure. The {{site.data.keyword.codeengineshort}} experience is designed so that you can focus on writing code and not on the infrastructure that is needed to host it. {: shortdesc} {: shortdesc}

Using {{site.data.keyword.cos_short}} as an event source

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Using {{site.data.keyword.cos_short}} as an event source {{site.data.keyword.codeengineshort}} is an event-driven compute platform (also referred to as Serverless computing). Actions (small bits of code) run in response to triggers (some category of event), and rules associate certain actions with certain triggers. Configure {{site.data.keyword.cos_full}} to be an event source, and anytime an object in a particular bucket is written or deleted an action is triggered. You can further tailor the changes feed to only corral events for objects which match a particular prefix or suffix. See Working with the IBM Cloud Object Storage event producer for more information.