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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)

Kubernetes use cases

As we have already touched upon in this chapter, Kubernetes can run pretty much anywhere, from just your local machine (which we will cover in our next chapter), from your on-premise hardware of virtual machine infrastructure to potential spanning hundreds of public cloud instances in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. In fact, you could even span multiple environments with your Kubernetes cluster.

This means that you get a consistent experience no matter where you are running your application, but also get to take advantage of your underlying platform's features, such as load balancing, persistent storage, and auto scaling, without have to really design your application to be aware it is running on, say, AWS or Microsoft Azure.

One of the common threads you will notice when reading through success stories is that people are talking about not being...