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Kubernetes for Serverless Applications

By : Russ McKendrick
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Kubernetes for Serverless Applications

By: Russ McKendrick

Overview of this book

Kubernetes has established itself as the standard platform for container management, orchestration, and deployment. It has been adopted by companies such as Google, its original developers, and Microsoft as an integral part of their public cloud platforms, so that you can develop for Kubernetes and not worry about being locked into a single vendor. This book will initially start by introducing serverless functions. Then you will configure tools such as Minikube to run Kubernetes. Once you are up-and-running, you will install and configure Kubeless, your first step towards running Function as a Service (FaaS) on Kubernetes. Then you will gradually move towards running Fission, a framework used for managing serverless functions on Kubernetes environments. Towards the end of the book, you will also work with Kubernetes functions on public and private clouds. By the end of this book, we will have mastered using Function as a Service on Kubernetes environments.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we have taken a very quick look at what is meant by serverless, and we have launched and interacted with serverless functions in AWS and also Microsoft Azure as well as used a third-party tool, which just happens to be called serverless, to create a serverless function in AWS.

You will have noticed that so far we haven't mentioned Kubernetes at all, which you may be thinking for a book entitled Kubernetes for Serverless Applications is a little strange. Don't worry though; in the next chapter we will be looking at Kubernetes in more detail and all will become clear.