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JavaScript Cloud Native Development Cookbook

By : John Gilbert
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JavaScript Cloud Native Development Cookbook

By: John Gilbert

Overview of this book

Cloud-native development is a modern approach to building and running applications that leverages the merits of the cloud computing model. With cloud-native development, teams can deliver faster and in a more lean and agile manner as compared to traditional approaches. This recipe-based guide provides quick solutions for your cloud-native applications. Beginning with a brief introduction, JavaScript Cloud-Native Development Cookbook guides you in building and deploying serverless, event-driven, cloud-native microservices on AWS with Node.js. You'll then move on to the fundamental patterns of developing autonomous cloud-native services and understand the tools and techniques involved in creating globally scalable, highly available, and resilient cloud-native applications. The book also covers multi-regional deployments and leveraging the edge of the cloud to maximize responsiveness, resilience, and elasticity. In the latter chapters you'll explore techniques for building fully automated, continuous deployment pipelines and gain insights into polyglot cloud-native development on popular cloud platforms such as Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). By the end of the book, you'll be able to apply these skills to build powerful cloud-native solutions.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Creating an SSL certificate for encryption in transit

Encrypting data in transit is critical for systems with sensitive data, which accounts for most systems these days. Fully managed cloud services, such as function-as-a-service, cloud-native databases, and API Gateways, encrypt data in transit as a matter of course. This helps ensure that our data in motion is secured across the full stack, with little to no effort on our part. However, we ultimately want to expose our cloud-native resources via custom domain names. To do this and support SSL, we must provide our own SSL certificates. This process can be tedious and we must ensure that we rotate certificates in a timely manner before they expire and cause a system outage. Fortunately, more and more cloud providers are offering fully managed certificates that are automatically rotated. In the recipe, we will use the AWS Certificate...