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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

So, here we are at the end of the book. We have worked through what we mean by serverless, and addressed the confusion about running serverless functions on servers.

We have learned about how Kubernetes started and some of its core concepts, as well as about deploying clusters locally and in public clouds using both tools provided by Kubernetes themselves, and also the cloud provider's native solutions.

Using these clusters, we worked through several tools that all provide Functions as a Service functionality, either by extending Kubernetes with new functionality, or by taking advantages of the Platform as a Service functionality of Kubernetes and installing themselves on top of Kubernetes.

We then discussed potential security issues with these deployments and how to monitor them, before then talking about how we try and keep ahead of an ever-evolving technology,...