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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 installed a single-node Kubernetes cluster on our local machine using Minikube; we looked at how to achieve this on macOS, Windows 10, and Ubuntu Linux. Once installed, we discovered that we can interact with our single-node Kubernetes cluster in exactly the same way, no matter which operating system our local machine is running.

We then took our first steps in launching pods, ReplicaSets, and services using both the Kubernetes dashboard and the Kubernetes command-line client called kubectl.

In the next chapter, we are going to be launching our first serverless tool, which is called Kubeless, on top of the single-node Kubernetes cluster we now have running locally.