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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)

About Minikube

One of the things you may have been thinking to yourself when reading the previous chapter is that Kubernetes seems complex. There are a lot of moving parts, which not only need to be configured but also monitored and managed.

I remember when I originally looked at Kubernetes when it was first released before the stable version, and the installation instructions were very long and also things were a little delicate.

Misread a step at the beginning of the installation process and you could find yourself in a lot of trouble later in the installation—it reminded me of when magazines used to contain type in listings for games. If you made a typo anywhere then things would either flat-out not work or crash unexpectedly.

As Kubernetes matured, so did the installation process. Quite quickly a number of helper scripts were developed to aid in launching Kubernetes...