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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)

Why Functions as a Service on Kubernetes

In the first few chapters, we spoke about serverless functions and Kubernetes and the advantages of using them:

  • Kubernetes: the biggest use case for using Kubernetes to deploy your application is that it allows you to develop once and then deploy in a consistent way across multiple platforms, be it self-hosted bare-metal servers, or private clouds running virtual machines on VMWare, OpenStack, KVM, Hyper-V, and more. The same goes for public cloud providers such as Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and now AWS, who all offer their own native-managed Kubernetes services all the way through to your local machine running Minikube or the soon-to-be-released versions of Docker for macOS or Docker for Windows.
  • Serverless: Deploying all or parts of your application as serverless functions can help it scale with ease. All of a sudden, you do...